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From: Stephen Samuel <samnospam@bcgreen.com>
To: Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com>
Cc: dlubowa@bushnet.net, linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Throttle Users
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 12:13:01 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4390AACD.8020805@bcgreen.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17292.14251.241443.981919@cerise.gclements.plus.com>

You could redirect to a SQUID cache that would redirect any proper
HTTP  to a notice page and drop anything else.

OpenBSD PF tables seem like a nice way to filter for offenders.

Glynn Clements wrote:

>David Ziggy Lubowa wrote:
>  
>
>>Anyone got any ideas on this ,   would like in the most primitive way for now 
>>be able to  have users who have not paid there bill be redirected to a page 
>>and also not be able to use any of my bandwidth say put a minimum of 8k  ,  
>>anyone got any ideas.
>>    
>>
>
>Bandwidth restrictions are reasonable enough, but I would advise
>against attempting to implement redirection. HTTP isn't just for web
>browsers; some programs use it to retrieve data, and replacing that
>data with HTML may have adverse consequences.
>  
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-02 20:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-29  9:56 Throttle Users David Ziggy Lubowa
2005-11-29 10:34 ` Adrian C.
2005-11-29 13:01   ` David Ziggy Lubowa
2005-11-29 13:32     ` Adrian C.
2005-11-29 11:12 ` Glynn Clements
2005-12-02 20:13   ` Stephen Samuel [this message]
2005-11-30 13:56 ` Andy Davidson

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