From: Razvan Cosma <razvan.cosma@catv.telemach.ro>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [LARTC] question re: longer-period fair sharing
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 08:35:16 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-lartc-103475739406448@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-lartc-103475680605991@msgid-missing>
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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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-16 8:25 [LARTC] question re: longer-period fair sharing Thomas Vander Stichele
2002-10-16 8:35 ` Razvan Cosma [this message]
2002-10-16 9:13 ` Dragan Zubac
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