How can I LIMIT the LAN speed?

[Rufe0]

Hi all
I only have a 544kbs internet connection wich wirks out at about 50kbs normal speed, and basicaly it not enough. I need a way to Limit or somehow stop internet connection sharing from letting the network have more than 20kbs or so... can it be done?

[Brian Lee_4]

you can not do it in host end.
it has only 10hd 10fd 100hd 100fd auto_on options for land card in host end.

[Steven E. Protter]

You need not take any action.

You are concerned with load balancing and don't need to.

If there is one connection, its okay to give them max band width on the NIC card, because thats not faster than what the machine can do internally.

As new connections come in, the band witch will be handed out just like anything else the OS time slices.

You best bet to keep the machine from being overloaded is to limit the number of simultaneous connections.

This can be done with the kernel parameters controlling how many telnet devices are enabled. The default is 60, and that may be too high.

If its not telnet you could limit sessions with parameters in the apache server, database or back end application. This will limit sessions and therfore bandwidth degradation.

Tell me about the app and I'll tell you how to handle the limitation.

If you are trying to reserve some bandwidth for the machine to use itself, say for Internet downloads, don't worry about that. If you are set up for full duplex, you can go full speed on upload and download at the same time with out much degradation.

None of this is going to overwhelm the CPU in any recent HP-UX server/workstation.

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[Rufe0]

Thats great guys thanks a bunch but erm could you please explain in compleat idiot terms?

[Andy Beal]

Connection sharing? You might be in the wrong forum(s) with this question. There are a few solutions, but non is very easy, unless you have some $$$ to burn. Packeteer comes to mind, so does some *BSD solutions that do packet/bandwidth limiting quite well. I'm not sure what your asking is really a HP-UX question.

Andy