From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 24 0:39:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D93E37B721 for ; Wed, 24 May 2000 00:39:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA53861; Wed, 24 May 2000 00:39:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Message-ID: <392B8737.CE9A3B15@gorean.org> Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 00:39:35 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT-0523 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: valentin strasser Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a question about sharing References: <20000523115250.86319.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG valentin strasser wrote: > > Hello > I'm an university Net administrator. The net works under FreeBSD UNIX. We > are connected to our ISP via a cable with a limited traffic. We want to give > our students some access to the Internet in such a way that each student > will have his/hers account with a limited amount of Mbytes per month of > traffic. I would gladly appreciate if anyone tells me where to find a free > software that can solve the problem. Our ISP wants to change FreeBSD on > Linux. FreeBSD can do this, assuming that I understand the question correctly. I believe the dummynet and bridging capabilities are what you're looking for. Unfortunately I can't help get you up and running, since I haven't worked with them, but there is a lot of information in the mail archives and the on line FAQ and handbook. Good luck, Doug -- "Live free or die" - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message