On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 9:25 PM, Mike mike@microdel.org wrote:
On Thu, 18 Aug 2011, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
Let's try again:
I need to automatically block any user who abuses bandwidth, either incoming or outgoing. I should be able to set the limits, in either rate/s or usage/s: 1Mb/s or 10GB/h, for example.
Then, any users, connecting from anywhere, on any IP should be blocked
- either if he uploads or downloads (i.e ingres & outgres) for a
specific amount of time.
As one might imagine there is at least one commercial product that seems to fit the bill.
http://www.aspirantinfotech.com/downloads/Cyberoam/pdf/Managing-bandwidth-th...
I mention this as I thought it was well written and thorough. After reading the pdf seems to me there ought to be something open source based upon perhaps this: http://lartc.org/lartc.html
Anyway maybe some food for thought. _______________________________________________
Thanx. We already tried the cyberoams, but they didn't work as expected since they manage bandwidth on a per-user basis, and our "users" come from the world-wide-web.
I have read through that document link on http://lartc.org/lartc.html#AEN1393 and the closest I could get is rate limiting, but that doesn't actually block the IP if it goes over a certain threshold, it just slows everything down.