Updates

[Gavin McCullagh]

Hi,

On Mon, 05 Mar 2007, maning sambale wrote:

> > There is a package available called cron-apt which might be better than the
> > graphical update manager for this.  It doesn't need you to be logged in to
> > download packages and it can start itself when the network comes up if
> > you're on say, a dialup connection.
> 
> Can you limit the bandwidth size for this kind of download set-up?  I
> can't use firefox anymore when downloading packages on my dial-up
> connection.

I'm not aware of a particularly simple method.

Linux can do this sort of thing though.  I think wondershaper might be a
tool to look at, though I have never done it myself.

http://lartc.org/wondershaper/
http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.cookbook.ultimate-tc.html

It seems to be packaged in Ubuntu.

Gavin