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trickle

trickle is a lightweight, portable, per-application bandwidth shaper. It works in collaboration, has peak detection, and does smoothing. trickle works entirely in userland and does not require root ... More

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AUDIENCE : system administrator
LICENSE : BSD License (revised)
OPERATING SYSTEM : bsd
Linux2 : FreeBSD : netbsd : openbsd : Solaris : USER INTERFACE : console

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Richard Kim

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NetLimiter

Control Your Bandwidth With Trickle

by Richard Kim on July 17th 2009 at 03:42 PM

Trickle is just a yum install or apt-get install away if you're on a Fedora or Debian/Ubuntu machine. You must have the libevent library, Trickle's only dependency, already installed before you install Trickle. Most modern distribution will already have this installed. If you want, you can also install the celebrated traffic shaper from source with the configure, make and make install trio of commands.

Trickle regulates speeds by delaying the data transferred over a socket. Trickle provides an alternate version of the BSD socket API, with the effect that socket calls are now handled by Trickle. Speed is limited by controlling the amount of the data written or read from a socket. Trickle can only work on TCP connections, so you can't use it to regulate UDP stream connection such as DNS.

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