Re: traffic shaper

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Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 7 Aug 1997 21:46:51 +0100 (BST)

> 10 or even 1 bytes/minute. Ideally, this would be done with a
> TCP window which only goes up to one byte occasionally.

The shaper won't let you be quite that evil

> Can this be done with the traffic shaper patch? Would I need to hack
> my MTA for this, or could I just specify a netmask at boot?

You'd be better off tweaking the MTA - you also want the replies to
be delayed