On 08/18/11 12:43 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > But, I'm not a programmer, so I don't know where to start. hire one. your needs and requirements are vague and unique, no off the shelf solution will do exactly what it is you want. you also need to start thinking of your requirements in more precise terms, what the thresholds of traffic that will trigger and reset these blocks or throttles. you probably want to tie this into QoS so that when your algorithm determines that a specific host is over its threshold, you throttle it rather than block it entirely. messy messy messy. -- john r pierce N 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast