On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 9:21 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > On 8/18/2011 2:01 PM, 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. > > Those requirements don't mesh very well with the real world. That is, > people use use a network that they've been provided or paid for aren't > necessarily 'abusing' anything, and blocking access at times when the > network isn't fully loaded doesn't help anyone. What's the big picture > here? Don't you really need QOS to throttle certain things at peak > times only? > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell at gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ Les, it's not really about blocking people who paid. the servers in question provide a free service and no money is generated from it, but the client still pays for bandwidth so we'd like to cap heavy users a bit to avoid expensive bills. I know the requirements are strange, but I'm really hoping I could find something that could do this for us. Right now they have someone who monitors ntop and block IP's that way around, but it's inefficient and a salary which could have been spent elsewhere. Bandwidth in our country is exuberantly expensive, probably about 20x the price of bandwidth in the USA -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers SoftDux Website: http://www.SoftDux.com Technical Blog: http://Blog.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532