From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 19 00:40:32 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6725616A4CE for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 00:40:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from light.sdf.com (light.sdf.com [207.200.153.231]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB71C43FDD for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 00:40:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@sdf.com) Received: from tom (helo=localhost) by light.sdf.com with local-esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 1AMNxb-000Euv-Bj; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 00:45:15 -0800 Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 00:45:15 -0800 (PST) From: Tom To: Emre Bastuz In-Reply-To: <1069156449.717eee7648c72@webmail.emre.de> Message-ID: <20031119004341.T84301@light.sdf.com> References: <1069156449.717eee7648c72@webmail.emre.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Traffic Shaping for NNTP on Username-basis X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 08:40:32 -0000 On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Emre Bastuz wrote: > Hi, > > as you all know there are quite some providers out there that offer access to > their newsservers based on a traffic or bandwidth specific fee. > > I was just wondering how such a service can be implemented? It is done at the application layer, not the OS. If you download some of the News software packages, you will see that it is fairly typical feature. Look into Typhoon. It used to be available for FreeBSD, but Highwind dropped support because they had threading issues. Tom