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diff --git a/net/trickle/DETAILS b/net/trickle/DETAILS index 3a150d9616..7865c6eb04 100755 --- a/net/trickle/DETAILS +++ b/net/trickle/DETAILS @@ -10,13 +10,18 @@ SOURCE_DIRECTORY=$BUILD_DIRECTORY/$SPELL-$VERSION KEYWORDS="net" SHORT="trickle is a portable lightweight userspace bandwidth shaper" cat << EOF -trickle is a portable lightweight userspace bandwidth shaper. it can run in collaborative mode +trickle is a portable lightweight userspace bandwidth shaper. it can run in +collaborative mode (together with trickled) or in stand alone mode. -trickle works by taking advantage of the unix loader preloading. essentially it provides, to the -application, a new version of the functionality that is required to send and receive data through -sockets. it then limits traffic based on delaying the sending and receiving of data over a socket. +trickle works by taking advantage of the unix loader preloading. essentially +it provides, to the +application, a new version of the functionality that is required to send +and receive data through +sockets. it then limits traffic based on delaying the sending and receiving +of data over a socket. trickle runs entirely in userspace and does not require root privileges. -developed on openbsd (i386); tested on openbsd (sparc, sparc64, macppc), solaris (sparc, +developed on openbsd (i386); tested on openbsd (sparc, sparc64, macppc), +solaris (sparc, sparc64), netbsd (alpha), linux (i386) and freebsd (i386). mentioned on sweetcode. EOF |