On 26 August 2014 12:31, Siji Sunny <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 25 August 2014 19:55, Rahul Mahale <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > I have a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian, and I have configured it as a > > wifi > > > hotspot using Hostapd and dhcp server. Mobile clients connect to the > wifi > > > network and browse internet. I need to keep the track of each user, how > > > much internet data it uses, and also need to limit the user to > particular > > > data limit (e.g:1 GB). I need to track data plan, as well how much data > > > used or left for particular user. > > > > > > Which tool or configuration will allow me to achieve this scenario? > > > > > > Thanks in Advance. > > > -- > > > *Rahul.R.Mahale.(**http://rahulmahale.wordpress.com/ > > > <http://rahulmahale.wordpress.com/>**)* > > > -- > > > http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > > > > > > > Dear Rahul, > > > > These systems will require a linux server/router box and little bit of > > setup( Sadly, i doubt the Pi has the grunt to run them.), but you can > > satisfy all your requirements and more. Again, it might be worth it if > you > > are looking at doing this on an organized basis, but may be too much > effort > > for just personal use. > > > > Squid will work without any issue on ARM platform, so RPi. Only you may > need to compile it from source. > Since the processing capacity of RPi is very low, you may not be able to > handle much users/data. > > Siji, i was not taking about basic squid, but rather the ISP grade billing systems that i had listed in my mail as not being able to run on the RPi Specificaly(Remember, this is an ARMv6 platform, with very limited resources available, compared to something like the beagelboard black, ARMv7+lots more ram).
> > http://www.freeside.biz/freeside/ > http://www.citrusdb.org/ > http://www.amberdms.com/ > > Also, the way he described his setup, it looks like he has only minimal storage available(Agreed, my assumption), so he would have to add more flash/SDCard Storage to provide any meaningful caching with squid, else just use squid as a pass through to throttle/account data usage(And dont get me started on the required storage space for the log files for all that data usage accounting). Thanks and Regards R. K. Rajeev Ph : +91-9323802020 > Thanks and Regards > > > > R. K. Rajeev > > Ph : +91-9323802020 > > -- > > http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > > > > > > -- > Siji Sunny > -- > http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
