Traffic Control and Reports

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Hi

Would like to place a firewall between my ADSL modem and WIFI Access point, before allowing people in my building to connect to my wireless network.

With the goal being to be able to set them a quota i.e. 2GIGs a month, have an email sent to myself and them notifying us that their quota is nearly (or is) up and finally blocking them when it is used up.

IPCOP has an addon that does this called Traffic Control and Reports." (TCAR)

Can anyone suggest somthing more current than IPCOP that I could try?

Thanks in advance
 
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What kind of people are connecting to your network? Employee's?
Randoms?
How are you drawing reports now? Ip based? Mac address based? AD account based?
 
Friends / neighbours

At the mo its just my girlfriend and I using a 384kbps telkom line via my ADSL Modem / Router.

We'de like to get more people on board paying a fee toward a 10bmps line to reduce costs - Ill then pass on bandwidth to them in quotas.

Not using anything at the mo but have spent the weekend toyig with IPCOP / Smoothwall / SoftPerfect ® Bandwidth Manager
 
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Bear in mind that the IPCop TCAR (Traffic Control & Report) addon only totals download traffic, upload traffic is ignored. Important to know if your users are doing torrents.
 
How about a modem running a different firmware. Quite a few Linksys modems can be flashed with DD-WRT which can be setup as a wifi hotspot with the same control.
 
Untangle lite edition doen't (appear) to have the Bandwidth Managment feature thats seems like it might do the job and the paid for version is pretty expenseive. (for me right now.)

I checked these out last night but couldnt find (or missed) a good bandwidth managment addon / feature.

http://www.techradar.com/news/software/applications/7-of-the-best-linux-firewalls-697177?artc_pg=1

Someone on a PFsense forum suggested a RADIUS server the idea of which looks and sounds Great; in practise though it looks REALLY complictaed. (to me)

www.fon.com seems a good idea, though if I can (at this point) get away with out spending money I'm going to try.
 
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Okay thanks will check it out. Would RouterOS installed on an old PC do the job?
 
RouterOS would work fine for the quotas. Even a small routerboard like the RB250 would work (i think, the RB450 would certainly work) - at about R400.
I dont know about the e-mail alerts though, you would have to look into that.
 
The RB250 is just a Switch, it runs SwitchOS, not RouterOS.
SwitchOS doesn't have the support you want for Hotspots and Ratelimiting.
 
Thanks, have downloaded RouterOS and installed in on an old PC, there are a lot of option here (it seems), reading through the documentation to find what going to work best...
 
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The RB250 is just a Switch, it runs SwitchOS, not RouterOS.
SwitchOS doesn't have the support you want for Hotspots and Ratelimiting.
Click to expand...

Sorry, my bad. I meant the RB750 not the RB250.
 
Do what I do - install ZoneCD (Hotspot Wireless) and get your neighbours to pay you to use the service! Easy peasy!! Money fo jam!!

Oh yes its Opensource - so no cost to you and runs off a CD - Perfect!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZoneCD
http://www.publicip.net/

What you need to do is VLAN your network into 2 vlans (Your Lan which is private, DMZ where the public hotspot lives) and add vlan access lists so that no traffic from the DMZ (or whatever you want to call it) can access your private network.
 
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Have Tried everywhere (that I can think of) to dowload this software and cant find it anywhere. If you or anyone knows where I can download it from or has a copy I can FTP or somthing please let me know. Thanks.
 
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