Re: A couple of questions

Close but no cigar. I will definitely take a look at the link you gave
below. However, in my case, I'm talking about a corporate environment where
Internet is accessed via our network. No dialup.... :-(

----- Original Message -----
From: <alowe@hislora.com.au>
To: "--==[bolMyn]==--" <crash@bolek.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 10:31 PM
Subject: Re: A couple of questions

> for item number 3 there may be a solution... are the users dial-in?
> if they are and you can use a radius based system for authentication, try
> looking at icradius, a project im working on... i am currently adding a
> monthly limit of data so that a user exceeds the limit, then they cannot
> log in at all..
>
> http://icradius.hislora.com.au/
>
> it may help, but is not squid related, only really good for dial-in users,
> such as an isp...
>
> it also can do time limits per month, and many other stuff
>
>
> Andrew Lowe
> andrew@pccentre.com.au
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> On Wed, 3 May 2000, --==[bolMyn]==-- wrote:
>
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I've been to FAQ, but it did not answer all the questions I had:
> >
> > 1. Can I forward request to Squid to a remote proxy (and how, please).
In
> > Apache it's done quite simple but it seems to me that performance of
Squid
> > is better for this.
> >
> > 2. I am currently looking for a product that would enable me to
re-direct
> > abusive users of streaming media, for example, to a warning page. I can
> > also do it in Apache with re-writes and re-directions. I can also use
> > pattern matching in Apache. Can I do the same in Squid?
> >
> > 3. Ideally, I'm looking for something (which I think Squid now cannot
do)
> > that would enable me to shut people down based on how much bandwidth
they
> > use a day. Let's say, I want to say 10Mb per 8 business hour (or per
day).
> > If a user exceeds that number, my imaginary proxy would re-direct such a
> > user to a warning page and such a user could not use his browser for
> > browsing the Internet until next day. I don't even know if this is
possible
> > and how that could be done, especially when I come to think about
complexity
> > of the checks.
> >
> > I will greatly appreciate any ideas or suggestions...
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
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Received on Wed May 03 2000 - 20:01:52 MDT