Traffic Shaping for NNTP on Username-basis

[Tom]

On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Emre Bastuz wrote:

> Hi,
>
> as you all know there are quite some providers out there that offer access to
> their newsservers based on a traffic or bandwidth specific fee.
>
> I was just wondering how such a service can be implemented?

  It is done at the application layer, not the OS.  If you download some
of the News software packages, you will see that it is fairly typical
feature.  Look into Typhoon.  It used to be available for FreeBSD, but
Highwind dropped support because they had threading issues.


Tom