Bandwidth limiting by day

[rhorn]

How can I limit the amount of bandwidth I use by the day? For example, let's say I only want to be able to use 750 Mbytes (incoming + outgoing) of bandwidth within a 24 hour time period. Is there a way of issuing "ifconfig <interface> down" if it hits this limit?

[countach44]

I dunno if this would help, but there's mod_bandwidth for apache, if you're looking to limit bandwidth on an http server.

[gorn]

I don't know of an existing tool but one could be written. Something that does a ifconfig eth0, grabs the "RX bytes:270258278 (257.7 Mb) TX bytes:120446255 (114.8 Mb)" line, then if it's in X range, ifconfig eth0 down. The only possible challenge would be resetting the numbers each day. (unload/reload module at worst)

[rhorn]

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I don't know of an existing tool but one could be written. Something that does a ifconfig eth0, grabs the "RX bytes:270258278 (257.7 Mb) TX bytes:120446255 (114.8 Mb)" line, then if it's in X range, ifconfig eth0 down. The only possible challenge would be resetting the numbers each day. (unload/reload module at worst)
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That would work, but the problem is that it's reactive and will likely not issue a shut down command until afterwards.

Anyway, I got a tip from another place to check out the QUOTA module for netfilter/iptables

[Ashcrow]

Great! once you get it working tell us how you did it!