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[Paul Mather]

On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 14:11:14 -0700, tech39 at tech39.net wrote:

> I have spent many usless hours looking at Freebsd.org, google.com and 
> yahoo.com in an attempt to find a ftpd that I can cap / choke the 
> outgoing bandwith.
> 
> Do you know of any such animals?

Yes, ProFTPD (ftp/proftpd in ports) will let you do this flexibly.  See
the TransferRate directive used in proftpd.conf for details.  (E.g.,
http://www.proftpd.org/docs/directives/linked/config_ref_TransferRate.html)

Cheers,

Paul.
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