On Wed, 2001-11-14 at 12:37, Don Cohen wrote: > I don't see to be ale to post to the list, so a personal response: > > I'm currently living in university housing, and they provide an network > connection. The only limit on transfer speed is link saturation, > however there are monthly and daily limits for all data transfered to > and from the internet. Is it currently possible to shape traffic so > that there is: > - no limit on local transfers > - 5G/month, 200/day, 800/night limit on external transfers > - the ability to still do transfers as fast as the link will allow > (until it bumps up against transfer limits). > > The university does enforce these limits? > I guess they just stop forwarding when the limits are reached. > So you don't need to enforce them. You just want to allocate > them more evenly over time? The easy way would be to limit the > rate at a finer granularity. Otherwise we get into details of > the limit - like when do the limited period start/end. They track, but never stop forwarding; they just start charging at $0.05/meg ($50/gig). I'd rather avoid that. What I really want to do is allow uneven allocation, but stay inside the limits. After looking at the docs, I think I need something like a Token Bucket Filter, but at large scale: hours and days rather than seconds. The only problem is that I haven't seen anything that even says if this sort of thing is possible.
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