On Friday 15 August 2003 07.53, D Horn wrote: > Hi, I am faced with this problem. > I have to setup a proxy server, I am using squid that came with Red > Hat 9, to allow 100 users to access the internet. I have an ASDL > line and need to restrict each user to download only a certain > amount of mb per month and if the limit is reached his account must > be stopped until the new month. Each
Then you need some program which reads access.log and keeps track of how much data each user have downloaded, and add an acl which blocks users over their quota. There was discussion about such program quite recently, see the squid-users archives. > user also needs to login before they can use the internet. The > users Pc's are windows machines. I would like to know if it is > possible with squid or are there other programs that can help me do > this. Squid is fully capable of this. See the Squid FAQ chapter on authentication. Regards Henrik -- Donations welcome if you consider my Free Squid support helpful. https://www.paypal.com/xclick/business=hno%40squid-cache.org If you need commercial Squid support or cost effective Squid or firewall appliances please refer to MARA Systems AB, Sweden http://www.marasystems.com/, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
