[Techtalk] My son is a network hog -- limiting usage on one computer (fedora 15)?

[Gayathri Swaminathan]

Hiya Gwen,

On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Little Girl <littlergirl at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I've looked at some traffic shaping software but I'm not sure
>> that's what I want. I don't want to prioritize certain traffic. I
>> just want to (almost) cut him off once he goes over a predetermined
>> limit.


You have the right idea! "Traffic control using iptables" is a good
search term. Here's quick finds:

http://linux-ip.net/articles/Traffic-Control-HOWTO/
http://blog.edseek.com/~jasonb/articles/traffic_shaping/

You can also do limitation using Squid. Here's a pretty nice article
Carla wrote on this long times ago

 - http://www.serverwatch.com/tutorials/article.php/3357241/Reining-in-Bandwidth-With-Squid-Proxying.htm

Hope this helps!

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Gayathri Swaminathan
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