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Title: Bandwidth limiting and user panel
Post by: Nicholaus on June 04, 2003, 06:40:49 AM

Is anybody working in User Panel Bandwidth Limiting?
I´m waiting for a long time.
I read some info about people working on a contrib to do so.

Regards
Nicholaus

Title: Re: Bandwidth limiting and user panel
Post by: Cyrus Bharda on June 04, 2003, 06:51:03 AM

There is a contrib for controling cbq, search for "cbq how to" for more info, the only thing is that it is in spanish.

Otherwise apparently it is contained with Dan's Guardian, available from dungog.net but I have not tryed it at all.

Cyrus Bharda

Title: Re: Bandwidth limiting and user panel
Post by: Nicholaus on June 04, 2003, 09:19:41 AM

No, Dan´s Guardian do not control each IP individually.
Either CBQ does not control upstream individually for each IP of the intranet.
It only controls ppp0 and limit ALL outgoing traffic.

Title: Re: Bandwidth limiting and user panel
Post by: Cyrus Bharda on June 04, 2003, 09:27:09 AM

Yes and No,

If you want to control each IP individually then see this thread on how to setup a cbq rule for each IP you wish to shape:

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=5058.msg17782#msg17782

Just means you wont be able to do it from the server-manager, you have to get your hands dirty and manually create the rule files.

Cyrus Bharda

Title: Re: Bandwidth limiting and user panel
Post by: Jorge Boardman on June 16, 2003, 08:11:49 AM

Try a look to www.mikrotik.com

It is a linux based router with very great features..... really worth a 100th times it cost.

We have been using some of those boxes in several applications including bandwidth shaping..

Best Regards

Title: Re: Bandwidth limiting and user panel
Post by: Nicholaus on June 16, 2003, 08:55:34 PM

Hi Jorge:
     Thanks, but... it is not free, it is commercial, it isn´t like e-smith

Thanks anyway

Title: Re: Bandwidth limiting and user panel
Post by: Stan Coleman on June 22, 2003, 11:21:56 AM

I'd like to see this added to the service-manager or maybe one user-manager panel. I've had several people ask me if I knew of a way to limit internet access by users. It apears that several offices would love to have internet but they have a couple of individuals that would be on it all day long. Panel would need to have access listed by user [yes,no,ok-hours,not ok-hours,e-mail only,bandwith]. This way you could let Bob access the internet after 5pm or just slow him down to the point where he doesn't want to do lots of surfing. Would be a good tool to stop some of those file sharing programs. User panel would need to be accessed by one "Manger" that would decided who gets what and when.