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[hannibal218bc]

Hellas,


I added a post to a german thread on that topic, but it seems to me that the real gurus don't speak german ;-))

Anyways, I'd like to set bandwidth limits based on clock, for example with a cron job. The windows eMule offers an integrated "scheduler" for that kind of tasks.

I realize that amuleweb actually can set bandwidth limits, but there is no command or command line switch to amulecmd, at least not one that I was able to find.

Killing amule, modifing the preferences file and starting the mule up again doesn't seem like the "golden way to go".... :-/


Many thanks for your replies folks,
best regards
 -hannes

[Jacobo221]

ye, Scheduler isn't into aMule yet, allthough it will be after aMule 2.0.0 final.
for a cron script, you can use aMuleCMD (like amuleweb). no need to restart aMule with amulecmd

Greetings!

[hannibal218bc]

Hellas,

thanks Jacobo for your replay. Unfortunatly does amulecmd's help not list something that sounds like bandwidth limits...  could you please give me a hint?

I tried to locate amulecmd's source code, and also tried strings amulecmd to find out the appropriate command.. but failed :-(


Thank you again,
best regards
-hannes

[Jacobo221]

the source files for amulecmd is src/TextClient.cpp

there is (or at leat there used to be) a function for setting the bandwidth limits. But amulecmd is under quite a heavy development right now (same as amuelweb) so maybe it has been temporarily removed. who knows xD

Greetings!

[hannibal218bc]

Hi again,


thank you for your help; i found out that there is actually a command "PREFERENCES SETMAXUPLOAD xx" / "PREFERENCES SETMAXDOWNLOAD xx" implemented in the server side of aMule, but not in amulcmd (see ExternalConn.cpp).

I am going to try implementing a perl script to issue those commands... check back tomorrow ;-)


Thanks again,
-hannes

[Jacobo221]

huh? a perl script that does the whole identification process + command sending?
are you a perl guru???

K, report tomorrow

[lfroen]

amulecmd can't change bandwidth limits. At least now. I'm not sure if code is actually ready on core side - how does it gets tested without client anyway ?
Command to amule thru perl script is arcane thing to do - protocol is binary, which perl don't like very match.
If you really want it - consider implementing CECPackets.cpp as perl module first.

And finally you can use Linux's itself banwidth limiting - look at manual of "tc" command

[hannibal218bc]

Hellas,


I have the perl script working, but it is an ugly quick hack.  A short sniffing session with tcpdump revealed how the binary protocol works,  and ExternalConn.cpp lists all available commands.

With a little knowledge of C it would be a minor hack to inlude that into amulecmd... perhaps even as command line switches...


Whatever, I have attached my hack to this posting, perhaps someone else finds it useful.


Thanks again for your help, Jacobo!,
greetings
-hannes

[GonoszTopi]

hannibal218bc, you are using EC protocol version 1.0 in your pl script. This is now obsolete. We're going full binary on EC, to gain some speed/bandwidth/flexibility.

lfroen, code IS implemented in ExternalConn.cpp since webserver IS able to set BW limits.

Jacobo221, amulecmd can not and never could set bw limits.

hannibal218bc, It'd need me 3 mins to implement it, so look at tomorrow's CVS tarball (I hope I won't forget to actually do it )

[Jacobo221]

hannibal218bc: don't lie to me: you're real name is Larry Wall... ;-)

congrats for your amazingly fast and well done script. Let's see how good you do with ECv2 ;-D

oh, and no problem. you have my help for anything you might need it :-)

GonoszTopi: I'm almost sure it existed not much time ago ;-)

[GonoszTopi]

Requested feature added to CVS, check out tomorrow's CVS tarball.

[lfroen]

GonoszTopi: I'm almost sure it existed not much time ago ;-)

No, you wrong here.

[djtm]

you can just use this script

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Apache_2_bandwidth_limiting

and change the port to your aMule port

then change the script so that it accepts a parameter and put it in your cron.



biut it's good to know that it's added to amulecmd now. I think amulecmd could support adding a ed2k link, but I don't wanna bug.

[stefanero]

for adding ed2k link htere is already a console tool,,,,

why would you want two?

stefanero

[djtm]

because it works remote. This would mean it could be used to implement a script, that remotely adds ed2k link easily. And I would immediately write that script once that feature would be out