Ubuntu

Hi peeps,

I have a teenage lad who needs to learn some discipline with internet access etc. etc. My main problem is that he is downloading so much that he is using more than his fair share. What I'd like to do is set a download quota for him so that he can learn what this all means. Can anyone point me to decent tools / tutorials / or show me how to do this? I have his mother's support on this so this should not turn into a lesson in teenage behaviour :-).

There are ways of achieving this kind of thing, but the appropriate method depends on your configuration. In order to be able to give a reasonable suggestion can you please post the following information.

Thanx for the quick reply I realised that I had not supplied enough info - DOH!!!!!!!!! Anyway here's the stuff: Connection is via eth0 to a broadband router. Ther eis one PC connected and four users on the PC using Hardy Heron. Funny thing is that /dev/eth0 does not exist and I thought that this would be the obvious place to start.

That's the most difficult setup to implement quotas on because there is no real correlation between the user an the network traffic. I think however that I can figure something out to do what you want.

Over what time period do you want to set the quota? Daily/weekly/monthly? And what effect do you want to have when the quota runs out?

Well what I'd really like to do is stop his access to the eth0 interface so that he has no way of accessing the internet once he has reached his limit after a month. I'm sure that he can do it in three days so it will be a hard lesson for him to learn :-). Is it not possible to do this on a per user basis?

Not with the standard tools, but that's nothing unusual.

I'll have a look and see what needs to be done to get it working. I should have something reasonable by tomorrow afternoon.

Thanx REBORG you're a saint.

I've been looking around and it seems that ip-tables is the place to start - do you concur? Trouble is I cannot seem to get on with ip-tables.

greadey