From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nathan Muise Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 18:48:27 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] Shaping with Monthly traffic limits MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-fAgAoKvHjU0UbV5oaS6i" Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: To: lartc@vger.kernel.org --=-fAgAoKvHjU0UbV5oaS6i Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2001-11-14 at 12:37, Don Cohen wrote: > I don't see to be ale to post to the list, so a personal response: >=20 > I'm currently living in university housing, and they provide an network > connection. The only limit on transfer speed is link saturation, > however there are monthly and daily limits for all data transfered to > and from the internet. Is it currently possible to shape traffic so > that there is: > - no limit on local transfers > - 5G/month, 200/day, 800/night limit on external transfers > - the ability to still do transfers as fast as the link will allow > (until it bumps up against transfer limits). >=20 > The university does enforce these limits? > I guess they just stop forwarding when the limits are reached. > So you don't need to enforce them. You just want to allocate > them more evenly over time? The easy way would be to limit the > rate at a finer granularity. Otherwise we get into details of=20 > the limit - like when do the limited period start/end. They track, but never stop forwarding; they just start charging at $0.05/meg ($50/gig). I'd rather avoid that. What I really want to do is allow uneven allocation, but stay inside the limits. After looking at the docs, I think I need something like a Token Bucket Filter, but at large scale: hours and days rather than seconds. The only problem is that I haven't seen anything that even says if this sort of thing is possible. =20 --=-fAgAoKvHjU0UbV5oaS6i Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQA78rx7z1XfPRVyhFQRAsCqAJwLF8HCfjroGVY2j9vwjQrgxbec1wCfdWAm MvgiZQnJxxKGbe2Jy9NiIg0= =cHbt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-fAgAoKvHjU0UbV5oaS6i-- _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://ds9a.nl/2.4Routing/