From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 29 19:38:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE72837B479 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 19:38:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e9U3cpx27979; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 19:38:51 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 19:38:51 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Moritz Hardt Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" , Kris Doyle Subject: Re: Bandwith limiting Message-ID: <20001029193851.K22110@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <00102921361000.34252@colk99.users.mindspring.com> <200010300317.EAA14518@post.webmailer.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <200010300317.EAA14518@post.webmailer.de>; from mhardt@morix.de on Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 09:17:21PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Sun, 29 Oct 2000 21:34:58 -0500, Kris Doyle wrote: > > >I was wondering is their anyway to limit the amount of bandwith each users uses. > >Is it a feature of the Kernel or what > > * Moritz Hardt [001029 19:17] wrote: > I have never heard of anything like that. I don't think it's > possible. There are only quotas, supported by the kernel, which > set the availablke disk space for each user. both you guys need to: 1) read: http://www.lemis.com/email.html 2) man dummynet (which is a way to limit bandwidth) 3) look at the ipfw counters system which can be used to track how much bandwidth is used by a user. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message