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Date:      Sun, 29 Oct 2000 19:38:51 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Moritz Hardt <mhardt@morix.de>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, Kris Doyle <colk99@mindspring.com>
Subject:   Re: Bandwith limiting
Message-ID:  <20001029193851.K22110@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <200010300317.EAA14518@post.webmailer.de>; from mhardt@morix.de on Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 09:17:21PM -0500
References:  <00102921361000.34252@colk99.users.mindspring.com> <200010300317.EAA14518@post.webmailer.de>

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> On Sun, 29 Oct 2000 21:34:58 -0500, Kris Doyle wrote:
> 
> >I was wondering is their anyway to limit the amount of bandwith each users uses.
> >Is it a feature of the Kernel or what
> >
* Moritz Hardt <mhardt@morix.de> [001029 19:17] wrote:
> I have never heard of anything like that. I don't think it's
> possible. There are only quotas, supported by the kernel, which
> set the availablke disk space for each user.

both you guys need to:

1) read: http://www.lemis.com/email.html
2) man dummynet (which is a way to limit bandwidth)
3) look at the ipfw counters system which can be used to track how
   much bandwidth is used by a user.

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
"I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."


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