[cobalt-users] Re: Adding bandwidth limits fails "The attempt to set the bandwidth limit failed"

["Stealthhosts.com - Server Administrator" <admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello again..

> Hi!
>
> Oppss... (we seem to be the ones active on a sunday) :P
>
> Stealthhosts.com - Server Administrator wrote:
> > -------------------------------------------------------
> > I see what you are saying but in my understanding that would be data
> > transfer amount and not data transfer rate.
> > Taken from the Cobalt GUI "Limit the maximum data transfer rate from
> sites.
> > Each limit affects all sites associated with the IP address that is
> > limited."
> > When I attempt to add a limit, the help bar displays "Bandwidth Limit
(in
> > kilobits/second) to place on the IP address listed."
> >
> > Therefore I do think this feature is a bandwidth (speed) limiting
feature
> > instead of a data transfer amount limiter.
> >
> > Thank you for your reply, and based on this information any further help
> > would be appreciated. I shall store the ipacct location for future
> reference
> > as that will come in useful to me for something else.
> >
> > Forgive me if this post does not continue in the thread, I am posting
this
> > manually based on the archive.
> >
>
> I've just rechecked and you're right
> -> Bandwidth Limit (kbps)
> but where did you get the 0-400000000 limit from?

That was simply the smallest and largest numbers I tried (not meaning they
were the min-max that the field can hold)

>
> I have successfully set mine to "999999999" in the
> Raq550 GUI with no problems.
>
> Just to be sure we're looking at the same thing, the
> configuration is found at:
> Server Management -> System Settings -> Bandwidth
> Limits

Yes that is the same area

>
> Another thought, how about disabling the website
> first? or stopping the web server via the CLI,
> and then try to apply the bw limits. Maybe it can't
> "reduce" the speed because your site has already
> exceeded the 40kbps in the first place. I should
> try it myself, but am too lazy to upload a huge
> file over... have been fighting determined spammers
> the whole day, internal and external... :P

Nah, already tried stopping services etc.

For reference the following thread has been started that may be worth
investigating:
http://list.cobalt.com/pipermail/cobalt-users/2003-December/098603.html

"I was insgtalling the RaQ550 pkgs on a RaQ3 from the CLI
While installing RaQ550-All-Kernel-0.0.1-2.4.19C10_III-1.pkg
The following error comes up:::

/home/packages/36_RaQ550-All-Kernel-0.0.1-2.4.19C10_III-1.pkg
package bwmgmt is not installed

People have noted that RaQ550 bandwidth management does not
work on RaQ3/4s, I was installing from the CL, actually a script and the
following error comes up. Is it possible that "package bwmgmt" is compiled
for a Pentium???"
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I shall look into this further as it may be related (thanks to Gerald at
frontstreetnetworks for posting it)


>
> regards.
>
>

Thanks again

Lewis