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

[Michelle Murrain]

I have a totally awesome router - it's a Buffalo
(http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0028ACYEK/ref=oh_o03_s00_i01_details)

It has DD-WRT, and can do QoS, access policies, etc. It was really
worth it, and saves the trouble of adminning a linux box (as much as I
love to do that.)

You could totally throttle your son when you need to, or block URLs, etc.

You can also do some filtering if you want by using OpenDNS - it's a
pretty cool service.

Peace,
Michelle

On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 8:47 PM, Akkana Peck <akkana at shallowsky.com> wrote:
>> Jennifer wrote:
>> > My excuse was that I was flabbergasted that someone else suggested
>> > telling one's offspring to leave over Internet usage. My nerdy butt
>> > would have been kicked out many times.
>
> Also, it may not be easy for him to tell when he's violating the rules.
> When I started hearing about ISPs imposing monthly limits on bandwidth,
> it made me wonder how much bandwidth we use in a month and how
> reasonable the limits actually were. Turned out there's no way to
> tell. Most consumer routers don't keep track of bandwidth.  On Linux
> you can run a cron job keeping track of things like
> /sys/class/net/eth0/statistics/rx_bytes and tx_bytes, or the TX and
> RX packets field of ifconfig, and keep accumulating them.  No idea
> if Windows has anything similar.
>
> Of course, that doesn't justify watching youtube all day after
> being told it's a problem.
>
> Or if you can replace your router with a Linux box, you might be
> able to run something like Tomato and keep track that way, and
> maybe even limit after he reaches a certain point:
> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r25339643-Tomato-Way-to-limit-bandwidth-of-one-user-using-Tomato-
>
> But it's surprising there isn't an easier way to keep track.
>
>        ...Akkana
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