On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > > Are you paying for bandwidth by total bits transferred or by peak or > 95th percentile rate? > We pay per MB and the servers are connected to a 100MB/s port. > > You should be able to automate what you are doing with ntop. Or use a > netflow collector to centralize the traffic counting and translate your > rules into iptables settings. > Really? That would be great. But, I'm not a programmer, so I don't know where to start. And, I need to protect a whole bunch of servers, so ideally this should be done either on a central gateway which connects on the other side of the switch, or a firewall appliance. Any suggestions? > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell at gmail.com > -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers SoftDux Website: http://www.SoftDux.com Technical Blog: http://Blog.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532