Re: [CentOS] Centos as Gateway ? (Router/transparent proxy)

2011-05-02 Thread Arun Khan
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 12:33 AM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 05/02/11 6:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: >> Correct. The easy solution is to ban bittorrent and other P2P services. > > > not as easy as it sounds.   those services are remarkably agile at > dodging firewall rules > > Layer 7 net filtering m

Re: [CentOS] Centos as Gateway ? (Router/transparent proxy)

2011-05-02 Thread Spiro Harvey
On Mon, 2 May 2011 14:19:13 -0700 Drew wrote: > > 3. Irrespective of cost, sometimes heavy downloading can eat into a > > connection's bandwidth and kill the connection for everyone else. In > > fact, upgrading to a flat rate plan encourages this kind of > > behaviour more. > If the ISP offer's "

Re: [CentOS] Centos as Gateway ? (Router/transparent proxy)

2011-05-02 Thread Les Mikesell
On 5/2/2011 4:06 PM, Spiro Harvey wrote: > >> Also worth considering is to upgrade the subscription to unlimited >> internet access. > > 1. There's no such thing as unlimited. There are always limits. You're > thinking of "flat rate." > > 2. Flat rate isn't available in every country. > > 3. Irresp

Re: [CentOS] Centos as Gateway ? (Router/transparent proxy)

2011-05-02 Thread Drew
> 3. Irrespective of cost, sometimes heavy downloading can eat into a > connection's bandwidth and kill the connection for everyone else. In > fact, upgrading to a flat rate plan encourages this kind of behaviour > more. If the ISP offer's "flat rate" or "capped flat rate" services and can't handl

Re: [CentOS] Centos as Gateway ? (Router/transparent proxy)

2011-05-02 Thread Spiro Harvey
On Mon, 2 May 2011 20:21:19 +0800 Fajar Priyanto wrote: > Also worth considering is to upgrade the subscription to unlimited > internet access. 1. There's no such thing as unlimited. There are always limits. You're thinking of "flat rate." 2. Flat rate isn't available in every country. 3. Irres

Re: [CentOS] Centos as Gateway ? (Router/transparent proxy)

2011-05-02 Thread Drew
>> Correct. The easy solution is to ban bittorrent and other P2P services. > > not as easy as it sounds.   those services are remarkably agile at > dodging firewall rules At home it's a bit easier. You can do stuff at the firewall but any parent should have their kid's computer's root password so

Re: [CentOS] Centos as Gateway ? (Router/transparent proxy)

2011-05-02 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
John R Pierce wrote: > On 05/02/11 6:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: >> Correct. The easy solution is to ban bittorrent and other P2P services. > > > not as easy as it sounds. those services are remarkably agile at > dodging firewall rules > P2P always happens on much higher ports and if you creat

Re: [CentOS] Centos as Gateway ? (Router/transparent proxy)

2011-05-02 Thread John R Pierce
On 05/02/11 6:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Correct. The easy solution is to ban bittorrent and other P2P services. not as easy as it sounds. those services are remarkably agile at dodging firewall rules ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org htt

Re: [CentOS] Centos as Gateway ? (Router/transparent proxy)

2011-05-02 Thread David G . Miller
Roland Roland writes: > Hence, i'm thinking of setting up a centos machine to work as such: > > HDSL modem(natted to an onboard dhcp service for lan users) -> Centos - > > Switch - LAN users > > Hw specs: > > 3 GB ram > 3.0 core 2 duo > 2 X 1 TB HDD > 2 X 1 Gb NIC Your proposed configuratio

Re: [CentOS] Centos as Gateway ? (Router/transparent proxy)

2011-05-02 Thread m . roth
Fajar Priyanto wrote: > Also worth considering is to upgrade the subscription to unlimited > internet access. Or consider checking into just what your teenagers are downloading that's gigabytes and gigabytes mark ___ CentOS mailing list C

Re: [CentOS] Centos as Gateway ? (Router/transparent proxy)

2011-05-02 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Roland Roland wrote on Mon, 2 May 2011 15:09:00 +0300: > As you noticed above, my whole "connection management" is relying on > squid, i'm worried that it will process only traffic that's forwarded > to port "80" instead of everything going through the server. any idea if > thats the case? Co

Re: [CentOS] Centos as Gateway ? (Router/transparent proxy)

2011-05-02 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Fajar Priyanto wrote: > Also worth considering is to upgrade the subscription to unlimited > internet access. In Australia for example, and other remote locations have mandatory caps because they get their internet via limited throughput links (satellite or old "under the see" cables?), so he mi

Re: [CentOS] Centos as Gateway ? (Router/transparent proxy)

2011-05-02 Thread Fajar Priyanto
Also worth considering is to upgrade the subscription to unlimited internet access. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Centos as Gateway ? (Router/transparent proxy)

2011-05-02 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Roland Roland wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm lately suffering from Quota abuse at home. believe it or not my > teenagers are eating through my allowed quota. > > Hence, i'm thinking of setting up a centos machine to work as such: > > HDSL modem(natted to an onboard dhcp service for lan users) -> Ce

[CentOS] Centos as Gateway ? (Router/transparent proxy)

2011-05-02 Thread Roland Roland
Hi All, I'm lately suffering from Quota abuse at home. believe it or not my teenagers are eating through my allowed quota. Hence, i'm thinking of setting up a centos machine to work as such: HDSL modem(natted to an onboard dhcp service for lan users) -> Centos - > Switch - LAN users Hw s