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Old 01-15-2002, 06:37 PM   #1
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Download Limits by IP


Hey

I was just wondering how I would about setting a download limit for the machines on my network.

Eg: Each month they can download 100meg and once they have used that 100meg it says to them something like "Download Limit Reached, see the system admin"

I'd probably like to set it so different ip's had different limits.

I am pretty sure this would be possible, but I've no idea where to begin.

Thanks guys.

BAH: Topic should really read "Download limiting by IP"

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Old 01-15-2002, 07:26 PM   #2
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squid

I don't know if you're using squid, i know that squid has a limit for each packet you download, so, if you set the bigest package to 2 or 3 megs you will reduce the downloads, usually music and all those entertaining stuff.

but maybe it has another option to block the trafic by quote.

cheers!!
 
Old 01-15-2002, 08:26 PM   #3
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Yeh Im using squid,

However on looking at it, it can only really throttle bandwidth and not set download limits so no more downloading can be done from that client machine......it is definately something to consider though, thanks for the suggestion.

Any other options for download limits?

Thanks.
 
Old 01-16-2002, 02:42 AM   #4
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hi

hi ,

did u read the bandwidth limiting howto at :

www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Bandwidth-Limiting-HOWTO/


Iam suggesting a few good links for you :
http://bubba.org/?option=software/cbq
www.bubba.org/cbq.html

In issue 62 of www.linuxjournal.com there is a nice tute about traffic shaping. check it out. The URL is
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=3369

There is some real time explanation at http://www.linuxguruz.org/iptables/h...outing-15.html

See this whit papare :
http://www.lucent.com/livelink/139611_Whitepaper.pdf


Try reading the man pages for iproute2 .

or u can try searching www.google.com for the terms such as CBQ or "bandwidth limiting" , "traffic shaping"

i hope this is what ur looking for.

regards,
Xanthium.
 
  


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