Topic: Blocking Audiogalaxy and the like

[Stan]

Does anybody know about an advisory on dealing with download maniacs?
In the early Napster days it was quite simple, I've put together some IPCHAINS rules and made them into a CRON job script to be active during business hours and slightly beyond (I'm not a BOFH type ).
But it seems that I was too generous - now with all those post-napster applications life is a lot harder - sometimes the maniacs slow our net connection down to a crawl...
Any advice?
Anyone know somebody who is keeping track of al those apps and making it available?
Should I consider Transproxy + ....guard?

Thanks for any directions.

[anatole]

A good solution for your problem is to use CBQ capabilities of linux.
Info found in Bandwidth Limiting Howto @  www.linuxdoc.org
You should be able to set speed limits as tightly as you want.


Anatole