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| author | Rune K. Svendsen <runesvend@gmail.com> | 2013-06-03 12:15:12 +0200 |
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| committer | Rune K. Svendsen <runesvend@gmail.com> | 2013-06-03 12:15:12 +0200 |
| commit | 2002bceac5b8fad593c9cf83cc4e7127029f2174 (patch) | |
| tree | e9fddd5904c62aa032dcd71894a70fac042d29f3 /contrib/qos/README | |
| parent | fa9e5adddda0bee5adc040b957cf3f1a6a470802 (diff) | |
Add Linux script to limit outgoing bandwidth used by Bitcoin
This commit adds a Linux script that uses tc and iptables to
limit outgoing bandwidth to Bitcoin nodes. All tcp connections with
a source or destination port of 8333 are limited to the chosen rate.
It does not alter the incoming bandwidth. Additionally, outgoing
bandwidth to a host on a local LAN (defined by the LOCALNET variable)
is not limited.
Diffstat (limited to 'contrib/qos/README')
| -rw-r--r-- | contrib/qos/README | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/contrib/qos/README b/contrib/qos/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..f419685744 --- /dev/null +++ b/contrib/qos/README @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +This is a Linux bash script that will set up tc to limit the outgoing bandwidth for connections to the Bitcoin network. It limits outbound TCP traffic with a source or destination port of 8333, but not if the destination IP is within a LAN (defined as 192.168.x.x). + +This means one can have an always-on bitcoind instance running, and another local bitcoind/bitcoin-qt instance which connects to this node and receives blocks from it. |