Creating a bandwidth cap??

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hi all.
i am going to share my adsl connection with a few people, and i going to be running a squid server.
i know how to limit their bandwidth using dela pools.
But i want to know how to limit their downloading, so that they only can download say for instance one gig a month? i just want to know what program can i use to do that?

thanks all

[Roxoff]

This is an old question. May I refer you to the previous thread on this topic...

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/lin...er-ip-lan.html

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oh thank you. i am sorr for asking it agian, but all the searches that i did on the forums and on google told me how to limit the actual line speed not the amount of data. i.e how to bring them down from a 512 line to like a 56 line. but thanx agian. cheers

[Roxoff]

Hmmm yes, you're right. I dont even know where to start with this one; but it has to be possible - most ISPs have the capability to turn your service off after using too much of it, so there has to be a way.

[silence]

yes i saw. there is a program for windows called bandwidth managment by softperfect, and it is just what i wanted. but i don't use windows. there must be somthing for linux. maybe the wording is wrong, seeing as tho "bandwidth" covers such a broad discription. will keep looking, hopefully some1 has an answer.

[amitsharma_26]

i.e how to bring them down from a 512 line to like a 56 line. but thanx agian. cheers

use

#tc //- show / manipulate traffic control settings

Here's the man page, for further reference.. http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man8/tc.8.html

[silence]

thanks....but that i know how to do....its the part that i just want to limit a user to say 500mb per month. i know how slow their net down, thats easy with squid.

but i found this site tell me what u think?

[amitsharma_26]

thanks... i just want to limit a user to say 500mb per month. i know how slow their net down, thats easy with squid.

With iptables, Instead of user, i think you can limit an ip to any amount of mb per month or per any nos of time. But it will require your shell scripting skills.

Go through http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=05/12/15/177232

[silence]

Ahhhhh thanx, atleast it is somewhere to start. and my iptables knowledge isn't quite the best so this will be a good start. thx

[ThatOtherGuy]

Hi,

I discovered IPCOP which has the Traffic Control & Report mod which claims to do exactly this. problem is that I can't get it to do what it's supposed to do. It picks up total traffic but somehow doesn't want to allocate the traffic to the users. If you can try it out and tell me how you got it to work, I would appreciate it.

Thanks.