Re: [CentOS] rate limiting question between two hosts

Rogelio wrote:
> If I need to rate limit file transfers between to machines, what can I
> do at the host-level within CentOS, and what might I need to "yum
> install" in order to do?
>
> (For example, say I would like to rsync something, and then I would
> like to make sure that I don't exceed, say, 10 Mbs.)
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rsync has a built in rate limiter. See the man pages for more details

--bwlimit=KBPS limit I/O bandwidth; KBytes per second

Other ways would be to utilize a firewall or switch with built in QoS to perform such tasks. I believe Netfilter supports this type of thing.

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