Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 20:23:18 +0100 From: Alex de Kruijff <akruijff@dds.nl> To: "Tracy, John" <tracy@covenant.edu>, <ipfw@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Bandwidth control and counters Message-ID: <200303072023.18345.akruijff@dds.nl> In-Reply-To: <AB08C89FDA3A6246B59C84D1C8DBCCD82D6B11@wycliffe.covenant.edu> References: <AB08C89FDA3A6246B59C84D1C8DBCCD82D6B11@wycliffe.covenant.edu>
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On Friday 07 March 2003 17:44, Tracy, John wrote: > Greetings all, > =09We're putting together a firewall for the primary purpose of > ensuring fairness for a user base of around 600 students. We're > looking at a copy of different models for controlling bandwidth. We > will have an 3 megabit connection to our provider. We were looking at > limiting connections to 128kbps, so each user could download data at > about a megabyte a minute. The only problem with this is that it > prevents students from using the full bandwidth potential when it > might otherwise be unobtrusively available. Are there any good > methods for permitting connections to use all available bandwidth > unless other requests are made--and then fairly divide the available > bandwidth so that it is equally (as much as possible) responsive for > each user? > > And finally a last question... Were we to setup limits on > transfers--like 2gigs in a week per IP address, does anybody know of > any good FAQ's or guides of how to do this well? I use ipa and ipfw for this all. The only problem i can come uit with is=20 that the configurations may be a bit large for you. I'm on a netwerk=20 with a small number of users so this doesn't bother me. I could send you a configurations sample if you like. Let me know. --=20 Best regards/Met vriendelijke groet, Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ipfw" in the body of the message
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