firewall/bandwith limiting on ubuntu

[Harry Strongburg]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 02:15:05PM +0300, James Mutuku wrote:
> Thanks Harry for the detailed response.

You're welcome.

> I plan to  implement the setup as you detailed on the response. One more
> question:-
> Are there solutions that can limit(share bandwidth per client) on a dhcp
> environment?

Yes, you could use a squid proxy server plus iptables rules to direct 
all the traffic there, or so I hear. I have never tried to setup this 
(most of my local users don't abuse the bandwidth), but I hear it's 
possible, but again, I have never attempted it.