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From: Mr Dash Four <mr.dash.four@googlemail.com>
Subject: time-based IP accounting
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 17:42:18 +0000
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Is that possible?

I would like to be able to define various accounts for different parts 
of the day/week and track the amount of traffic passing through 
particular interface/IP address(es) and ports. I would also like to be 
able to reset these after certain period (say 6 hours after the account 
time has ended), but I guess I could do that via a cron job and by using 
iptables.

Any suggestions?