Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 00:45:15 -0800 (PST) From: Tom <tom@sdf.com> To: Emre Bastuz <info@emre.de> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Traffic Shaping for NNTP on Username-basis Message-ID: <20031119004341.T84301@light.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <1069156449.717eee7648c72@webmail.emre.de> References: <1069156449.717eee7648c72@webmail.emre.de>
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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
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