Throttling

[Benny Pedersen]

Hello Nick!

03 Apr 2012 08:00, Nick Andre wrote to All:

NA> Is there a way to throttle how much bandwidth BinkD uses?

yes, check binkd -vv

do you see bwlim ?

----- binkd.ebuild begins -----
[I] net-fido/binkd [1]
Available versions: 1.0-r561!m (~)1.0-r607!m {-aso -bwlim bzip2 -doc
-ntlm -perl -proxy zlib}
Installed versions: 1.0-r607!m(20:01:35 08-04-2012)(bwlim bzip2 zlib -aso
-doc -ntlm -perl -proxy)
Homepage: http://happy.kiev.au/
Description: Binkd daemon for ftn over ip

[1] "fidonet" /var/lib/layman/fidonet

Binkd 1.0a-607 (Apr 8 2012 20:01:24/Linux)
Compilation flags: gcc, zlib, bzlib2, bwlim.
Facilities: fsp1035 ipv6
----- binkd.ebuild ends -----

----- binkd.conf begins -----

#
# Limit bandwidth (rate):
# limit-rate [all|listed|unlisted|secure|unsecure] <rate>[kM%]|- <mask>...
#
# <rate> is a max allowed rate in bytes-per-second (k=kbytes, M=Mbytes),
# if % is specified, the node -bw rate is multiplied by this value
# in percents, if - then rate is unlimited
# <mask> is a filename mask to apply this rule to
#
# limit-rate rules are checked in the order they appear in config, first
# matcing rule is applied
#
# IMPORTANT! If a node has no explicitly defined bandwidth limit, the
# defnode's limit is used. If defnode has no limit, rate is unlimited.
#
#limit-rate unsecure - *.pkt
#limit-rate unsecure 2k *

----- binkd.conf ends -----

just compiled here now :=)

yep i know 608 exists, but i am behind :(


Regards Benny

... there can only be one way of life, and it works :)

[Benny Pedersen]

Hello Nick!

06 Apr 2012 20:54, Nick Andre wrote to Michiel Van Der Vlist:

NA> wants their fill of ALT.SEX.FETISH.ROBOTS then so be it.

lol giganews on ftn have newer being a good idear to make money

maybe i should start newspost ticker into jamnntpd :=)

btw another solution is drop zip in fav of 7z

----- bz2 begins -----
33M DB-ON-VOIP.zip
9,3M D'Bridge on VOIP.avi.bz2
----- bz2 ends -----

so you here save more bandwidth if you did not compress it with zip, and let
binkd compress it natively on transfer, but that only works on binkd, not irex
:=)


Regards Benny

... there can only be one way of life, and it works :)

[Benny Pedersen]

Hello Nick!

06 Apr 2012 08:28, Nick Andre wrote to Michiel Van Der Vlist:

NA> There is no more problem, I found another way to fix the bandwidth
NA> usage.

ehm ?

dont want to share this solution ?


Regards Benny

... there can only be one way of life, and it works :)

[Nick Andre]

On 08 Apr 12 19:49:46, Benny Pedersen said the following to Nick Andre:

BP> NA> Is there a way to throttle how much bandwidth BinkD uses?
BP>
BP> yes, check binkd -vv
BP>
BP> do you see bwlim ?

I do see it! Thanks again,

Nick

[Nick Andre]

On 08 Apr 12 20:10:24, Benny Pedersen said the following to Nick Andre:

BP> NA> There is no more problem, I found another way to fix the bandwidth
BP> NA> usage.
BP>
BP> ehm ?
BP>
BP> dont want to share this solution ?

I installed traffic-shaping here.

Nick

[Nick Andre]

On 08 Apr 12 20:12:54, Benny Pedersen said the following to Nick Andre:

BP> NA> wants their fill of ALT.SEX.FETISH.ROBOTS then so be it.
BP>
BP> lol giganews on ftn have newer being a good idear to make money
BP>
BP> maybe i should start newspost ticker into jamnntpd :=)
BP>
BP> btw another solution is drop zip in fav of 7z

Sorry, I have lots of systems connecting here with Internet Rex, so that won't
be of much help...

Nick

[Benny Pedersen]

Hello Nick!

09 Apr 2012 07:43, Nick Andre wrote to Benny Pedersen:

NA> Sorry, I have lots of systems connecting here with Internet Rex, so
NA> that won't be of much help...

thats my point :=)

back to my own life now


Regards Benny

... there can only be one way of life, and it works :)