Assigning Speed to Ports

[The Chicken]

Hi all out there!
First: Plz excuse my bad english
Second (about the subject): Couldn't really express it in english.
my problem: i have a server unter os x. how can i tell a port to use only max 14kbyte/sec so i have enough upload speed to download, view websites etc and not the whole internet connection is massive slowed down?
i have only 16kbyte/sec max... so i think 2kbyte will be enough.

Thanks for ur patience reading this text with all the faults
Chick :rolleyes:

[loren_ryter]

great question. there is an app called CarraFix that claims to do this. I haven't installed it because there are some security risks it seems. Look at version tracker.

I'd also like to know how to do this.

[aalegado]

You're looking for a feature called "bandwidth throttling" or "traffic shaping".

Like OS X's built-in router, it's the kind of feature you'd implement in the kernel (because that's where all the network traffic gets processed as opposed to some userland task) and an application like BrickHouse (firewall) or gNat (NAT router) might expose. I haven't seen a app out there that does this so I assume it's either not available in the OS X kernel or no one has figured it out yet. I hope it's the latter.

Depending on the application, you might be able to throttle on a per-application basis. For example, Apache has modules to implement bandwidth throttling. I'm not sure if wu-FTPd supports throttles but other FTP servers do have this features (ncFTPd comes to mind).

www.snert.com/Software/mod_throttle/ (http://www.snert.com/Software/mod_throttle)

Is this what you had in mind?

Originally posted by The Chicken
Hi all out there!
First: Plz excuse my bad english
Second (about the subject): Couldn't really express it in english.
my problem: i have a server unter os x. how can i tell a port to use only max 14kbyte/sec so i have enough upload speed to download, view websites etc and not the whole internet connection is massive slowed down?
i have only 16kbyte/sec max... so i think 2kbyte will be enough.

Thanks for ur patience reading this text with all the faults
Chick :rolleyes:

[The Chicken]

It works! Its great! fantastic! unbelievable! thx!!!!