Re: Simulating network throttling

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 10:57:26PM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:

> On Linux, you can also use the tc command to do traffic shaping and
> policing to allow only a certain amount of bandwidth, and you can use it
> in conjunction with iptables or nftables to do it only on certain ports
> or IPs.  It's very powerful and doesn't suffer from the limitations of
> proxies, but it also is rather complicated to set up, so you may want to
> try a proxy first to see if it meets your needs with less work.
> 
> OpenBSD's (and FreeBSD's, Darwin's, etc.) pf supports the same
> functionality but with a much nicer and easier to use interface (and I
> say this as a Linux user).

Yeah, these are both good suggestions that work transparently with any
protocol. I second the notion that tc is complicated to set up. ;)

If you really just want a pipe that will do rate-limiting in one
direction, many tools (e.g., "pv", which is available in debian) will do
it. That's hard to use with http, but you can stick it into an ssh
pipeline:

  $ git clone git@github.com:torvalds/linux.git
  Cloning into 'linux'...
  remote: Enumerating objects: 8129587, done.
  Receiving objects:   2% (163965/8129587), 70.89 MiB | 20.22 MiB/s
  ^C

  $ GIT_SSH_COMMAND='f() { ssh "$@" | pv -qL 512k; }; f' \
    git clone git@github.com:torvalds/linux.git
  Cloning into 'linux'...
  remote: Enumerating objects: 8129587, done.
  Receiving objects:   0% (15263/8129587), 7.57 MiB | 512.00 KiB/s
  ^C

-Peff