My internet connection is 60 megabits down and 8 megabits up.
I've got a Linux box on my network that connects off to a corporate network via a VPN over port 443. One of the things that box does is to ftp a huge file to the corporate network every 6 hours. When that ftp kicks off it negatively impacts all the other machines on my local network. I would somehow like to reduce the impact of that ftp, but since the ftp happens over the vpn, I can't just put a QOS rule in for ftp. It seems to me I'd have to put in a rule to reduce the priority of traffic on port 443 from that box. I can do that if thats the only way, but the downside of that is that its going to impact all traffic out of that box to the vpn, not just the ftp.
I read about a Linux command called "tc" that seems as though I could use on that box to reduce the impact of just the ftp traffic. The trouble is I am no Linux expert and the description of how to use "tc" is opaque enough (to me) that I don't know where to even begin. It is one of those really nice general tools that you can probably use to accomplish just about anything, but SO general that its impossible to figure out how to do the simplest of things (and of course, no real helpful examples of same on the man page).
Anyone out there with "tc" experience that could give me a turnkey way to do what I want? Let's say I wanted to limit ftp to a max throughput of 1 megabit/sec.
Or any other ideas how to go about this?
Thanks in advance for any assistance.
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bc
I've got a Linux box on my network that connects off to a corporate network via a VPN over port 443. One of the things that box does is to ftp a huge file to the corporate network every 6 hours. When that ftp kicks off it negatively impacts all the other machines on my local network. I would somehow like to reduce the impact of that ftp, but since the ftp happens over the vpn, I can't just put a QOS rule in for ftp. It seems to me I'd have to put in a rule to reduce the priority of traffic on port 443 from that box. I can do that if thats the only way, but the downside of that is that its going to impact all traffic out of that box to the vpn, not just the ftp.
I read about a Linux command called "tc" that seems as though I could use on that box to reduce the impact of just the ftp traffic. The trouble is I am no Linux expert and the description of how to use "tc" is opaque enough (to me) that I don't know where to even begin. It is one of those really nice general tools that you can probably use to accomplish just about anything, but SO general that its impossible to figure out how to do the simplest of things (and of course, no real helpful examples of same on the man page).
Anyone out there with "tc" experience that could give me a turnkey way to do what I want? Let's say I wanted to limit ftp to a max throughput of 1 megabit/sec.
Or any other ideas how to go about this?
Thanks in advance for any assistance.
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bc