wondershaper VS trickle

Compare wondershaper vs trickle and see what are their differences.

wondershaper

Command-line utility for limiting an adapter's bandwidth (by magnific0)

trickle

Trickle is a userland bandwidth shaper for Unix-like systems. (by mariusae)
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wondershaper trickle
8 5
1,645 528
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0.0 0.0
about 1 month ago almost 3 years ago
Shell C
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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wondershaper

Posts with mentions or reviews of wondershaper. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-05.

trickle

Posts with mentions or reviews of trickle. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-04.
  • Enabling IPv6 support for IPv4-only apps on Linux
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Oct 2023
    This method could apply to other tools with the same IPv4/IPv6 behaviour, without further modification. Changing the behaviour in the utility directly would only fix it for that one utility meaning that to fix another you need to do the same work again. It is perhaps also safer than modifying such a core component as SSH: if you introduce a bug the trick can be easily disabled until fixed, if you accidentally break SSH you might cause yourself significantly more hassle.

    > This sort of negates that advantage

    LD_PRELOAD trickery doesn't negate the advantage of having full source access, patching SSH would also have been a perfectly valid option, but is perhaps a better tool for this particular job.

    For another use of the trick see https://github.com/mariusae/trickle (the project looks stale, though that may be because it is properly done and there have been no security/other bugs to fix in recent history) which slips its own functions in the call chain to apply user controlled (rather than firewall/routing level) throughput shaping to utilities that don't offer it out of the box.

  • What kind of applications are missing from the Linux ecosystem?
    41 projects | /r/linux | 2 May 2023
    Have you tried Trickle?
  • How do I limit my bandwidth on Ubuntu?
    2 projects | /r/Ubuntu | 3 Jan 2021
    https://github.com/mariusae/trickle https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/usenix05/tech/freenix/full_papers/eriksen/eriksen.pdf

What are some alternatives?

When comparing wondershaper and trickle you can also consider the following projects:

redox - Mirror of https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/redox

go - The Go programming language

toxiproxy - :alarm_clock: :fire: A TCP proxy to simulate network and system conditions for chaos and resiliency testing

LMS - Lightweight Music Server. Access your self-hosted music using a web interface.

fish-shell - The user-friendly command line shell.

Monitorian - A Windows desktop tool to adjust the brightness of multiple monitors with ease

elpriser

WSL - Issues found on WSL

bubblewrap - Low-level unprivileged sandboxing tool used by Flatpak and similar projects

appvm - Nix-based app VMs

node-virtual-gamepads - Node virtual gamepads

gonic - music streaming server / free-software subsonic server API implementation