hi there is a traffic quota extension for netfilter. just take a look at http://www.netfilter.org maybe this could help you. greetings -----Original Message----- From: netfilter-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:netfilter-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Wycliffe Bahati Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 12:03 PM To: netfilter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Bandwidth filter with Volume Hi all I am looking for a utililty that could get an aggregated traffic of a particular ip on the nework, Sum cummulative volume downloaded and uploaded and limit it say 100MB per month. So when the user gets to 100MB it inserts a filter for that host so that it can only do certain protocals say smtp and pop. Anybody had of a tool like this. Rgds Wycliffe