throttle traffic by amount of time or amount of used traffic in GB?

2013-04-12 Thread Sebastian Singer
Hi, I am not generally against video games and other related online stuff. But my son (age 16) is in WOW, COD, Mindcraft and the like by approximatly 8 to 12 h a day. The same is to be observed in my friends families. Our children get lost to their loved ones because of computer game addiction.

Re: throttle traffic by amount of time or amount of used traffic in GB?

2013-04-12 Thread Kirk Ismay
On 2013-04-12 1:34 AM, Sebastian Singer wrote: Just one thing: Please stick to the technical focus of the question. Educational advice need not be given as I have received enough of it in the past already. And as far as I have seen and heard I am not the only father having to deal with these

Re: throttle traffic by amount of time or amount of used traffic in GB?

2013-04-12 Thread Sebastian Singer
Hi Kirk, Hi Peter, Thank you both for your quick and inspiring answers. I think I will first try setting up a table and continue with scripting around pfctl -vt tablename -T show as proposed by both of you.If I run into problems I will have a go at the solution with labels. Yours, Sebastian P

Re: throttle traffic by amount of time or amount of used traffic in GB?

2013-04-12 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Sebastian Singer writes: > So I do not want to cut him off the internet completely,  just limit > his bandwidth so much that he is throttled if he has reached a set > time limit or else if he reaches a certain amount of gb used. > > So the question is: is pf (ALTQ especially) able to cope with th

Re: throttle traffic by amount of time or amount of used traffic in GB?

2013-04-13 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 04/12/2013 04:11:47 PM, Sebastian Singer wrote: > Hi Kirk, > Hi Peter, > > Thank you both for your quick and inspiring answers. I think I will > first try setting up a table and continue with scripting around pfctl > -vt tablename -T show as proposed by both of you.If I run into > problems I wi