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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. |