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How can I bring an interface down once the amount of data transferred reaches a predefined limit?

I'm using a Linux box as a router between two of its network interfaces to route local traffic to and from the internet. The internet connection in question has a defined data allowance, and exceeding this is expensive. Ideally, I'd like to have the…
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How to fix the amount of bandwidth of iperf in tcp mode?

I'm working on some experiments about my master's degree project. I'm studying some load-balancers (I'm not supposed to cite them here) and the aim is to get for each bandwidth the cpu % usage of a load-balncer x. I'm using iperf to send traffic to…
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Web server losing bandwidth for 6 hours a day

For the past week or so our CentOS server (that runs Apache and NGIX as a proxy) has been acting odd as its bandwidth output has been consistently dropping from around 10/11pm until 4am to around 1M (neither dipping or raising past that). Here's a…
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How can I limit server badwidth per user, not a webpage?

I would like to limit the download speed of my .flv and my .mp4 files per user on my domain. My page have got 1000-3000 visitor per day and they can't watch my things at the same time, cos 1-2 people get all my bandwidth. I would like to give…
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Can Microsoft Forefront TMG handle users that are not part of a domain?

I'm a newbie and please excuse me if my question is so foolish :) Here is the scenario: In our company we have 50 PCs: 40 PCs have joined to the domain and 10 PCs haven't joined to the domain (simply just a work-group) and we never want to join them…
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Linux dynamic rate limiting/throttling

I'm running a video streaming website with lighttpd using http pseudo-streaming to deliver videos. If the user has a very fast connection, this can use bandwidth quite inefficiently. For example if the user downloads a whole video file but only…
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Upload throttling in IIS 7

I've got a situation where multiple concurrent file uploads are being executed in a web application. These uploads are of massive files, among several users, and it's choking the system into terrible latency issues. What is the best way for me to…
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Limit bandwidth using tc, iptables, and htb

I'm running a Debian server and was wondering if there are good resources out there, to which you can point me, where I can read about traffic limitations. I have a couple of users sharing one server. Each month we only get lets say 1 TB of…
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Configure a Linux router for fair bandwidth allocation without unnecessary limiting it

I run a Linux router (more precisely OpenWRT) on an internet connection with very limited bandwidth, around 1 MBit/s downstream and some dozen kBit/s upstream. There are several machines on the net that do low-bandwidth stuff, like playing web radio…
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Vnstat only updates on live?

I trying to configure vnstat...and anyway when I do vnstat -u it does say it updates but data does not change...if I do vnstat -l for live view and then go out of it and do vnstat -u it does update Is there a way I can do it without being in live…
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Any freebsd/PfSense realtime bandwidth monitoring tool?

i need to know if there is any Tool (specifically for FreeBSD) , through which i can get the Realtime network traffic usage of any Host/IP , and which should also run on Multiple interfaces as well? i have tried ntop, but its of no use. tried iftop,…
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What are some good programs which can be used to rate-limit traffic on a server?

We have some applications which hog network traffic on one of our servers (Windows 7) at the expense of the other (more important) applications. Is there an easy way to limit the bandwidth usage of this particular application with a program or…
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Assigning Bandwidth Limitations to VLANs

Is bandwidth management over different VLANs possible with a switch that was manufactured by Cisco? If so how can i configure my switch to do so? In every document about VLANs say "VLAN is for better bandwidth management." Is this because something…
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Implement QoS/Bandwidth Management or Upgrade Bandwidth?

A question that I'm faced with currently. Here's my setup: Cisco ASA 5510 15Mbps Internet Connection @ $1350/month The bandwidth was originally meant for 35-45 people but we've grown quite quickly to roughly 60-65 people. Needless to say, when I…
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Hardware bandwidth limiter

Really not sure if this is the place to be asking this, but here goes.. Our company has grown exponentially in the last year. As such, our internet connection needs some serious managing and limiting to not only ban facebook and other stupification…
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