Hi Roy,

On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, roy mukasa wrote:

> hey guys i have ntop on a windows based network being run by a linux
> firewall and i was just wondering that while using ntop you can see
> how much bandwidth each computer on your network is using. now i case
> i realise that someone is using high bandwidth and i want to stop his
> download say, is there a way i can do it remotely without me actually
> going to him and stopping the download myself supposing am at a remote
> location?

ssh <ntop-host>
iptables -I FORWARD -s <offender> -j DROP
iptables -I FORWARD -d <offender> -j DROP

Cheers, Chris.
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