While I don't personally use it (DD-WRT fits my needs), I've heard good things about Smoothwall: http://www.smoothwall.org/
It's a bootable Linux distro that can be run on old hardware and includes things like Squid for HTTP caching and RRDtool to graph network usage. It has a snazzy web interface. As with anything that amounts of Linux running on an old PC I wouldn't call it novice-proof or maintenance free, but it should be a bit less of a headache than, say, actually installing a full-blown Linux instance. And if you setup Dynamic DNS with it you should be able to SSH or HTTP in to make most changes without going on site. On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Andrew Farnsworth <[email protected]>wrote: > > I have a friend on Satellite internet (it's that or dialup) and they > have a hard cap on the amount of data you can download and upload via > the system. Does anyone know of a system that we can put in place > which will allow her to monitor and control usage of the internet > connection on a per-computer or per-person basis. I know I could put > something together by dropping a linux box to use as a router in place > and I am seriously considering doing this as it will also allow us to > put in a transparent proxy and caching DNS server to help reduce > bandwidth used. In their first month of usage, they hit the bandwidth > limit and there are penalties for doing it more than once. > > Andy > > > > -- Brandon D. Valentine http://www.brandonvalentine.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
