[LARTC] question re: longer-period fair sharing

[LARTC] question re: longer-period fair sharing

[Thomas Vander Stichele]

Hi,

I've been asked something I couldn't really give an answer to out of the 
box.  Someone I know wants to do fair bandwidth sharing over long periods.  
The period would be related to the provider's capping period ;)
So, for example, if five people share one connection, and the ISP allows 
10 GB per month of traffic, each person could only use 2 GB per month, and 
be effectively turned off when passing that limit.

Now, my question is - has anyone done anything similar ? I'd think that 
this application would lean more to an approach that just does accounting 
by the hour,, for example, and turn off net access through firewall rules 
based on those values.  Also, it would probably have to store intermediate 
accounting values to disk instead of keep everything in memory.

What do you guys think ?

Thomas


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Re: [LARTC] question re: longer-period fair sharing

[Razvan Cosma]

Try using the iptables quota extension (works just fine here with
iptables-1.2.6a).

On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've been asked something I couldn't really give an answer to out of the
> box.  Someone I know wants to do fair bandwidth sharing over long periods.
> The period would be related to the provider's capping period ;)
> So, for example, if five people share one connection, and the ISP allows
> 10 GB per month of traffic, each person could only use 2 GB per month, and
> be effectively turned off when passing that limit.
>
> Now, my question is - has anyone done anything similar ? I'd think that
> this application would lean more to an approach that just does accounting
> by the hour,, for example, and turn off net access through firewall rules
> based on those values.  Also, it would probably have to store intermediate
> accounting values to disk instead of keep everything in memory.
>
> What do you guys think ?
>
> Thomas
>
>
>


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Re: [LARTC] question re: longer-period fair sharing

[Dragan Zubac]

Hi,

Try a VPN solution with RADIUS accounting for amount of bytes each user
had transmit over the network.Radius protocol can do accounting bytes
(octects actually) as well 'online' time.In that way,You can have multiple
business policies for clients,one for kids,one for family,one for
guests,etc...
This solution maybe enters some delay in TCP/IP protocol,but guarantee You
secure connections (no more sniffing:),and You won't have possible trouble
about filtering MAC addresses of malicius clients trying to forge their IP
numbers if You have 'layer 3 accounting solution' :)
When they exceed the payed amount of bytes,simply that account won't be in
use anymore :)

Hope this help :)

f2zubac


On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've been asked something I couldn't really give an answer to out of the 
> box.  Someone I know wants to do fair bandwidth sharing over long periods.  
> The period would be related to the provider's capping period ;)
> So, for example, if five people share one connection, and the ISP allows 
> 10 GB per month of traffic, each person could only use 2 GB per month, and 
> be effectively turned off when passing that limit.
> 
> Now, my question is - has anyone done anything similar ? I'd think that 
> this application would lean more to an approach that just does accounting 
> by the hour,, for example, and turn off net access through firewall rules 
> based on those values.  Also, it would probably have to store intermediate 
> accounting values to disk instead of keep everything in memory.
> 
> What do you guys think ?
> 
> Thomas
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> The Dave/Dina Project : future TV today ! - http://davedina.apestaart.org/
> <-*-                      -*->
> You think I'm scared of girls well maybe
> but I'm not afraid of you
> You want to scare me then you'll
> cling to me no matter what I do
> <-*- thomas@apestaart.org -*->
> URGent, the best radio on the Internet - 24/7 ! - http://urgent.rug.ac.be/
> 
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