Bandwidth limit?

[ser]

Any suggestion how one can limit bandwidth?

[vog]

This would be a nice feature, so any volunteer work on this topic is welcome.

Without changing bscp, this is perhaps also possible using advanced packet filter settings. This is cetainly possible on Linux as well as BSD, although I'm not too much into it to provide a working configuration here.

[ser]

I think it would be as easy as adding "pv -R" into the pipe before invoking ssh, but to be honest I have no idea how to technically incorporate it into python's subprocess module.

[vog]

I don't think it is that easy, as there is the whole protocol of exchanging and comparing block checksums that needs to be reversed.

Also, it is not obvious to me which parts of the code can be used for both directions, and which parts are specific for one direction.

Anyway, feel free to give it a try. If it works, open a pull request.

[xtaran]

trickle might help here.

I thought there were commandline options to ssh which could impose a bandwidth limit, too, but I haven't found any. I probably mixed it up with rsync's --bwlimit option.

[vog]

To anyone involved in this issue, please see #16 "Future of bscp".

[vog]

Pull requests on this issue are still welcome.