Hello all, and thanks for this helpful post,
my question is can you give me a link for installation guide, i tried the help that come with the application but with no lock.
thank you

I'd also like any suggestions on setting up squish with ClearOS.

I was never able to get it working on by previous CC server.

-Rob A>

I have used squish on CentOS boxes, be careful as it does not reset monthly db figures. You will need to do this manually, or write a script for this. Also it does not work on date periods. For example it does not reset every Friday. If the user is squished then it takes a week to clear, if you set up weekly limits. I hope this makes a little sense.

I live in Zimbabwe and am trying to find a similar solution to allocating bandwidth quota's per user. Hence why I tried squish. I have just moved across to ClearOS and looking to use this for all my clients (I own a linux support company in Zimbabwe). If clients had money to spend, I would load IPCop as the gateway server. This has the perfect tool for Limiting users via quota's.

I would really like to have a solution in ClearOS so that I can use one server as the gateway and mail server etc.

Anyone got any other options ? B)

I'm also interested in using squish, have you made any progress in using it? Would love a heads up before losing any more hair on a new project.

found a program call squish that can limit by time and data by ip or login ,it connects to squid , as anyone tried to use this program . Can it be installed onto clearos. Will it see all the ports or only the ones for the proxy

http://www.ledge.co.za/software/squint/squish/

any help will be great thanks

Thanks Jim for the info
Will it be a good idea to open more ports to go though the proxy server for programs and block the ports handled by NAT or turn NAT off
If it is a good idea how can I do this
sorry for been a bit off subject

You are correct - the proxy server typically only handles port 80 (http) and port 443 (https) depending on your specific config (it can handle more). Any other ports are handled by NAT.

I can see the data usage though the proxy server reports by login and by ip but don't think this is accurate because seems some programs don't need a password to get to the Internet I may be wrong, new to this . If someone can explain further it will be great

Do you have static IP's and static users (stay at the same PC all the time) out of interest?

I've never done it but I believe that iptables has the ability to track data usage per IP - there might be a solution in there but that would be limited to to the source IP and no good if folks move around any.

Here's a link that may get you on the right path if are have static at these sites.
http://shahidz.com/bandwidth-monitoring-using-iptables/

Jim

This would really be a great benefit here in SA.

It would surely help with my sales !

Data limiting / capping by user login would be a great feature so that 1 if cap is reached user can't use Internet or 2 there bandwidth is cut down.

That would be a nice feature, but it's a big job. The web proxy might complicate matters too. As a temporary half solution, you might want to take a look at ntop.

Here's an ntop ClearOS howto