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hi,

I would like to slow my ftp client down to 9600, is there a way of doing
this ?

I need to do this because I dont want all my tiny bandwidth taken by ftp
client.

Thanx

bye.

| I would like to slow my ftp client down to 9600, is there a way of doing
| this ?
|
| I need to do this because I dont want all my tiny bandwidth taken by ftp
| client.

There are several ways to attack this.

1 - be sure you run fast serial speed, hardware flow control and
zero asyncmap on your link. This will get what you can out of the
link.

2 - Try dropping the value of MRU to 256 or smaller, to try to get
some interleave of ftp packets.

3 - Hack the ftp source and insert sleeps between the packets with
usleep or select. This needs to be done at the sending end, so it
may not help.

4 - wait a bit. There are other people (including me) working on
this in limited spare time. I am pretty sure I have the solution,
but probably will try it in 1.2.13 and then 1.5.x since 1.3 is in
code freeze. The simulation says it helps, but there's no real
substitute for enough bandwidth!

5 - you *might* be able to hack the ftp receive code to set the
window size very small. This may slow the transfer enough to be
useful, but may add enough overhead to waste more than it saves. I
haven't even run a simulation of this.
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