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On Sunday 18 December 2005 23:37, Paul Matthews wrote:
> I?m looking for a way to limit the download usage of my users. What I?m
> really looking for is a way to set a limit, for example each user can
> download 500 meg a month and once the month is up the user?s limit is
> reset and they can start downloading again. If they have passed there
> download limit I want every time they try and access the internet to
> redirect them to an internal webpage basically saying, you?ve passed
> your download limit. Does anyone know of any problems that would allow
> me to do this or anyway squid can do this?

Squid does not do any accounting. You would need an external script 
counting up the "quota" (from the log files) of a user and use an external 
ACL to block access when needed.

Kind Regards
 Christoph
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