Hey Jake Find it a bit hard to specificly understand what it is you want, but you might want to have a look on this: http://omg.wp.gg/wshaper-howto/ The example shown could be applied on more clients if neccessary or even specific ip segments of a network. - Rune Johannesen - Denmark > > Why can't the server keep track of how many each packets is being sent to a particular ip address, if over the download limit drop all packets from & to that ip. Of course the ip have to be static or the user have to login before using the internet. Is this concept right? If yes, what resources can help me to implement it. Internet--Cable Modem -> Server -> router -> various clients > | > (control clients download and bandwidth) > Jake He -----Original Message----- From: Chris Bennett [mailto:chris@symbio.com] Sent: Tuesday, 16 November 2004 4:20 AM To: Jake Subject: Re: [LARTC] Bandwidth and download control Trying to "control" the incoming traffic at Server (to use your topology) is very difficult. It can be done with IMQ, but setting that up requires patching, and its not completely reliable. The easiest way to "control" incoming traffic is to shape the traffic flowing *out* of Server to router. This, in essence, means that the traffic coming *in* to router will be effectively controlled. Of course, this is said with the caveat that of course you can't ever really control download traffic. If someone decides to start pumelling you with a ton of UDP traffic, requested or otherwise, you can drop the packets when they get to you but they've already consumed your bandwidth so it really doesn't matter. But its at least worth *trying* to control the incoming data since TCP, for its part, will (if behaving properly) slow down if you drop packets. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jake" <zhex900@optusnet.com.au> To: <lartc@mailman.ds9a.nl> Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 6:06 AM Subject: [LARTC] Bandwidth and download control > > > Can someone suggest me some resources where I learn how to have control > over download and bandwidth over a small network. > > > My network setup is very simple star topology. > > Network > | > | > Cable Modem -> Server -> router -> various clients > | > (control clients download and bandwidth) > > > > Jake He > > _______________________________________________ > LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl > http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/ > _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/