Managing Network Bandwidth
Trickle
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The trickle command-line utility helps you shape network traffic.
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If you have ever been in a situation where one application ate all your bandwith, then you will appreciate the trickle bandwidth shaper application. With trickle, you can control an application's upload and download speeds so that no single application hogs all the bandwidth. For example, you can ensure that downloading from Firefox doesn’t interfere with downloading a file from FTP.
Shaping bandwidth traffic is one of the mundane but essential tasks of a system administrator, be it in a large corporate setting or a small office. trickle enables you to control the network traffic rate on a per-application basis, as opposed to per-user control (the most familiar type of bandwidth shaping in a client-server environment).
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