TCPNICE(8)

💖 TCPNICE 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this is tcpnice(8) from the System Manager's Manual and it is lowkey unhinged in the best way 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

tcpnice — slow down TCP connections on a LAN 🐌💅

like. literally. it makes the network go brrr but backwards.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

tcpnice [-A] [-I] [-M] [-i interface] expression

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so tcpnice slows down specified TCP connections on a LAN, and the way it does it is via "active" traffic shaping. yes bestie, active is in quotes in the original and honestly that's the vibe — this isn't polite queuing, it's intervention. no cap. ✨

👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -A — Inject TCP tiny window advertisements. teeny tiny window, it's giving "no room for you" 🙈
• -I — Inject ICMP source quench replies. 😮💨
• -M — Inject ICMP fragmentation-needed replies with tiny next-hop MTUs. ✂️
• -i interface — Specify the interface to listen on. 👀
• expression — Specify a tcpdump(8) filter expression to select the connections to slow down. 🎯

⚠️ okay so if no attack type is given, all attacks will be enabled. not a drill. all of them. every single one. 🔥

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• dsniff(8)
• tcpkill(8)

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Dug Song <dugsong@monkey.org> — the icon, the legend 👑

and that's the whole page bestie 🫶 it lives in the System Manager's Manual, it's section 8 (that's the sysadmin/command section, iykyk), and yeah — that's tcpnice(8). mwah 💋⭐