From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 23 12:13:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp05.wxs.nl (smtp05.wxs.nl [195.121.6.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB88F37B400 for ; Sat, 23 Mar 2002 12:13:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from Alex ([213.10.151.186]) by smtp05.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GTG06200.TSM for ; Sat, 23 Mar 2002 21:13:14 +0100 Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 21:13:07 +0100 From: Alex X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.53d) Reply-To: Alex X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <6635122994.20020323211307@dds.nl> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bandwidth Limiting In-Reply-To: <002001c1d2a2$5518ad20$6600a8c0@penguin> References: <002001c1d2a2$5518ad20$6600a8c0@penguin> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello Taylor, Saturday, March 23, 2002, 8:38:39 PM, you wrote: TD> You see it all the time on webhosting services and such. They limit you to TD> say, 2 gb transfer a month, or limit your pipeline TD> to 256kbps, something similar to that. I was wondering what technologies TD> are they using? What kind of logging software are they using? Is there TD> something available for FreeBSD that does this? And does it only log web TD> traffic, or any traffic such as FTP, web, real streams, etc. TD> Taylor Dondich TD> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org TD> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message I am going to try out a port called 'ipa'. A ipa rule takes its stats from a firewall rule. When a rule is reached you have the option to execute command such as adding new firewall rules. A pipeline alone can be made with the traffic shaper in ipfw. And a limit is reached you can block or lower the bandwidth. -- Best regards, Alex mailto:freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message