PeerGuardian vs trickle - Userland Bandwidth Shaper
A side-by-side look at PeerGuardian and trickle - Userland Bandwidth Shaper. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.
PeerGuardian
Security & Privacy
PeerGuardian is a free, open source software that blocks connections to malicious or undesirable IP addresses to help protect privacy while using P2P networks. It maintains a frequently updated blacklist to identify risks.
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trickle - Userland Bandwidth Shaper
Network & Admin
Trickle is a userspace bandwidth shaper for Linux. It allows limiting the bandwidth used by a process, group of processes, or network interface. It's useful for rate-limiting backups, downloads, etc to prevent using all available bandwidth.
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