[clue-tech] Linux bandwidth limiting

[Angelo Bertolli]

erik at ezolan.com wrote:
> Situation:
> I have a bunch of files on my Linux box I'd like to share with my Internet
> friends. But I don't want my pipeline to the Internet to be saturated with
> their file transfers. How can I limit this?
>
> Bonus:
> Without limiting it to any of the boxes on my network.
>   

I haven't done this, but I looked into it before.  The keyword is 
"shaping" to search for, as in network shaping or traffic shaping.  Here 
is one I found:

http://www.linuxexposed.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=105&Itemid=53

Angelo