Terry, What type of gateway are you using to connect your workstations to the Internet? There are several commercial solutions available and at least a handful of open source. Choose a solution that meets your business requirements and your budget.
You could create a linux gateway to route packets between your router and your workstations. This is a relatively low cost solution (depending on the value of your time) and a very robust one. http://lartc.org/howto/ http://ar.linux.it/software/#rshaper Cisco has some nice hardware solutions that are worth checking out. This solution can be a bit expensive but is sure to get the job done. I would also look at some other hardware vendors to see if you can find a solution that better suits you. Cisco equipment tends to be overly complex and expensive (and usually pretty darn reliable). Some vendor provided software solutions include: http://www.packeteer.com http://www.etinc.com These vendors were picked from a random google... so this should set you in the right direction for finding a vendor if you prefer this type of solution. I don't know any of these products well enough to make a recommendation. Regards, Jason Burzenski -----Original Message----- From: Terry Peterson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 3:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Internet Cafe I currently own an internet cafe. Instead of applying strict policies we have decided to image the hard drives often. We have found that we had to lock down the boxes to tight that they became difficult for our customers to use. So far, we have not had anyone attempting to compromise the systems or use our center to source attacks. Out biggest problem is figuring out a way to limit bandwidth usage. Is anyone aware of anyway to limit download bandwidth on a per machine basis? Terry Peterson
