Roy You can also have a look at IPCOP (http://www.ipcop.org). Its open source :) and very robust! I set it up for our dear folks ar Malaria Consortium who were having issues with bandwidth to their ISP (MTN) to Bit torrents, name it. Its now three months after i installed it and they have never called me, and am still counting. It has got squid and other important open source software resources, Its web based interface is a plus.
Give it a shot! Kind regards Baldwin On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 2:51 PM, joseph mpora <[email protected]> wrote: > Can you give us more information on the 'firewall', is it running a > standard distro (ubuntu, fedora, suse, ..) or one that's dedicated for > the job (pfsense, ipcop, moonwall,..) > > If you intend to just limit the user to a specific bandwidth on a > standard distro, install squid and use its delay pools feature. > > Using a distro built for firewall duty will make your administration > easier as everything is already laid out for you. I highly recommend > pfsense in this regard. > > Joseph > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 1:38 PM, roy mukasa <[email protected]> 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? > > > > -- > > Roy Mukasa > > MUK FCIT > > +256774291110 > > _______________________________________________ > > LUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > > --------------------------------------- > > > > > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > --------------------------------------- > >
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