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Subject: Traffic Shaping for NNTP on Username-basis
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Hi,

as you all know there are quite some providers out there that offer access t=
o
their newsservers based on a traffic or bandwidth specific fee.

I was just wondering how such a service can be implemented?

Does any of you have an idea how the concept with a username/password and
a shaping based upon traffic/bandwidth works?

I suppose there is some kind of backend (RDBMS, LDAP) that has the shaping
parameters associated with a certain account. In how far can this be combine=
d
with an OS (preferably FreeBSD) to limit the access?

Or maybe the routers connecting the servers to the internet are doing the
shaping?

I=B4m really curious how this all works :)

Any hints/links/docs/ideas will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Emre

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