Did anyone tried mod_bw or mod_cband , or maybe other mods like these?
i still don't know how the hell those could solve my problem , at
least
partialy..
none of those connect with a SQL db..
they make the decisions upon a conf file , for the whole vhost..
We tried those with several cli
Yeah, there aren't a lot of options, and what else
there is other than Throttlebox is far more simplistic.
We wrote Throttlebox because we found that the existing
solutions were a tad TOO simplistic - they caused just
enough problems to not be worth it for the benefits.
It took a few years of e
> This kind of functionality, in my opinion, is better
> implemented at transport level and not at application level.
Yes, well that was the main problem , doing it per user, of course i
have on
the DB the ips of the users when they login, i even update that, but
you
know how ips are, co
Did anyone tried mod_bw or mod_cband , or maybe other mods like these?
i still don't know how the hell those could solve my problem , at least
partialy..
none of those connect with a SQL db..
they make the decisions upon a conf file , for the whole vhost..
i can identify the users from the URL
Yes, well that was the main problem , doing it per user, of course i have on
the DB the ips of the users when they login, i even update that, but you
know how ips are, constantly changing, even more, they can be under NAT on
some private network,
but no doubt making it under a lower OSI level wou
No, not every bit, but to limit somehow , per user how much he can use for
download
it's a simple mp3 service, not something fancy
so i can even count per 1MB or so, or even a larger scale..
right now i'm counting every download, (with resume support and multiple
connections)
but if the user s
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 05:11, partysoft wrote:
>
> I am looking for a solution to limit the bandwith for the users of a site
> that have access to some mp3 / subscription. I don't want to serve files
> through PHP, but directly with some apache module..
> do i have to count every bit? or how this
do i have to count every bit?
You have to count every bucket, and do it carefully
because there are some pitfalls you run into when you
implement it in the real world. Be aware that the major
browsers have recently changed so they will by default
use many connections. Download agents which b
