[Ubuntu-ZW] Econet and headaches

Kalpesh Thaker luminary06 at gmail.com
Thu Nov 4 14:24:03 GMT 2010


this is tricky, what you may be looking for is a bandwidth shaper or
bandwidth manager.......
in any case, because econet charge on usage, you now have two issues to
address -->

1 - the amount of time someone may be occupying a workstation
2 - how much bandwidth they are using

initially, you only had to worry about how much time someone was occupying
on a workstation,
because your bandwidth was a set fee...and you could use as much as you
wanted to.

there are alot of commercial bandwidth shapers.. but they get very
expensive..

the easiest and most viable solution is for you to implement a squid proxy,
using ACL's and delay
pools.. you can actually create 'bucket' rules that can be IP specific.. so
if someone uses up
15mb, the connection can slow them down, or cut them off once the limit has
been reached.

more information can be found here:

http://quark.humbug.org.au/publications/squid/aclsquid.html

and here:

http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/DelayPools






On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 10:57 AM, O. Sinclair <o.sinclair at gmail.com> wrote:

> Friends,
>
> we support 2 small sites where they among other things offer internet
> access (read sell it). They were using the "old" Econet 25/USD per month
> package and could then charge for time, printouts etc. How it worked is
> another story.
>
> These computers use KDE Kubuntu 10.04 btw, am considering upgrading to
> 10.10
>
> The new "bundles" is a major headache... how do they now charge? If one
> user sits on Facebook/Youtube for x minutes and chew up bandwidth how do
> you measure/charge for that? Another simply reads email, checks out
> newssites and does research, can sit for much longer but use much less
> bandwidth...
>
> Anyone else in this fix, anyone knows a tool that measures "used
> bandwidth" and could possibly cut at a reached amount?
>
> Best
> Sinclair
>
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