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Simon Waters wrote: > Grant Sewell wrote: > >> Err... OK. Is LARTC something that is easily configurable on a single >> desktop machine? >> > It is the name of the documentation -- do try a search engine. By and > large the kernel features required for most things are built in. > Ah, I get it now. ;) >> I have my mail server and web using apticron already so they do their >> updating overnight. >> > So something like "apt-proxy" or a caching proxy would presumably avoid > downloading the same data over the same link again? > Yeah, I could set that up, but the Desktop machine is likely to be the only Testing machine on the network (until I can afford a laptop of my own... the College's laptop has to be returned shortly), so apt-proxy (or any other caching proxy) would be a bit redundant for *this* purpose. The web and mail servers (both running Stable) are already configured as I want them, and there seems to be very few changes on either the Stable or the Security Debian repositories, so setting up a caching proxy for this purpose would really be overkill to save myself a very small amount of bandwidth in the middle of the night when no-one is using my Internet connection anyway. :D >> Something along the lines of "netrestrict -r 256k 'command'" (a made >> up command, incidentally) would be ideal. >> > Not seen anything like that. Although I'm sure it is possible. Usually > by the time the data is in the network layer you've forgotten what the > source was, and it is often easiest to match it by the destination or > other network like attribute. Ah! Just found it. Having trawled the "Networking" category in Synaptic, I have found "trickle": trickle is a userspace bandwidth manager... $ trickle -u 10 -d 20 ncftp Launch ncftp(1) limiting its upload capacity to 10 KB/s, and download capacity at 20 KB/s. Sound like it'll do the trick. Cheers anyway. Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html