[CentOS] which firewall to automatically block bandwidth abusers?
Rudi Ahlers
Rudi at SoftDux.com
Thu Aug 18 19:43:34 UTC 2011
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
>
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Rudi Ahlers
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