> Hey just a min. HOWTO is documented for limiting one-way traffic. Once > again I want to clear here that total traffic mean "from and to" a computer > must be limited to certain limit. once again, some advertisement for my bytelimit patch ... :-) you can use it to limit the traffic going thru an iptable rule. so, if this rule is checked by input and output traffic, it will limit both, using the same quota. the patch is available at http://etudiant.univ-mlv.fr/~jpetazzo/bytelimit.tgz (that must be at least the 4th or 5th time I post about my patch, but it looks like it could be helpful to a lot of people ;-)) Jerome Petazzoni <skaya at enix dot org> -- Windle shook his head sadly. Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind. (Reaper Man)