C Linux Bandwidth Throttling of Application

Question

What are some ways I can try to throttle back a send/sendto() function inside a loop. I am creating a port scanner for my network and I tried two m

Answer 1

If you'd like to do this at the application level, you could use a utility such as trickle to limit or shape the socket transfer rates available to the application.

For instance,

trickle -s -d 50 -w 100 firefox

would start firefox with a max download rate of 50KB/s and a peak detection window of 100KB. Changing these values may produce something suitable for your application testing.