[clug] Throttling scp?

[Ben Polkinghorne]

Steven Hanley wrote:

>On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 02:21:34PM +1000, Antti.Roppola at brs.gov.au wrote:
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>>Hi all,
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>>Is it possible to throttle scp rather like the --bwlimit option in rsync?
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>>Is it just as sensible to use rsync instead?
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>>We are copying a large collection of "stuff" to a server and don't want
>>to monopolise the connection.
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>Use rsync, rsync -e ssh is the same authentication mechanism as using scp
>and has the advantage that it wont munge file permisions and other file
>meta data like scp does.
>
>	See You
>	    Steve
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you could also look at the IMQ patch for netfilter, I use it to limit  
and prioritise all sorts of things.  It takes a bit of setting up, you 
will need a kernel patch as well, but once it's all set up it will give 
you alot of control over your bandwidth.