Yes, do what I do and use a specified FORWARD rule for each machine.. then count it every 5 minutes and remove the rule should the user exceed it.. eg.
110K 15M MASQ all ------ 0xFF 0x00 eth1 10.10.10.10/32 0.0.0.0/0 n/a This user has a 15MB limit and the the rule killed it off.. I have just added the line before the removal... A crontab each month readds the users FORWARD rule back in... Hope this springs ideas to people.. thanks, George Vieira Systems Manager Citadel Computer Systems P/L -----Original Message----- From: Edwin Humphries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 11 December 2001 12:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] Broadband user allocation G'day, We have a low volume ADSL connection to our three-client home office network, run through a RH 6.2 server. We have ntop running to monitor network traffic, and the ISP is warning us (using some rather suspect tools) that in a week we have exceeded our month's allocation. Although I can move to the next plan up, which doubles the allocation, even this would be inadequate, and to get a plan for the claimed usage would be prohibitive. Although I don't have a problem with legitimate office use, some of the ankle-biters are downloading MP3s, movies, and staying logged on to hotmail, MSN messenger and ICQ for long periods of time - I suspect this is where most of the traffic is going. So: is there a way that I can allocate a certain amount of the monthly traffic limit to various logged-in users? In other words, person A logged in on machine 1 (an NT4 client) has a defined traffic limit for the month? Best Regards Edwin Humphries [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
