Firewall / Router - QOS

Blackbadger · 18 Jan 2011 at 13:20

I'm looking for a router/firewall that can specify data transfer quota's per user.
I needs to be low power. Even a atom box will draw far to much electricity. It doesnt need to be particualy fast or powerfull.

I can only find systems that do bandwidth control per user, not total data transfer. limiting the speed for users isnt the problem, its the total amount of data transfer per user is the issue.

I have tried draytek vigor routers - good but cant do what I want.
I have purchased a pfsense system based ona pc engines alix board -, again good but still cant do quotas. (If another linux or other distro with the right features can run on this system it would be ideal)
I have looked into flashing consumer routers wirth wrt/tomatoe again it cant do this.

Any suggestions ?

havok · 18 Jan 2011 at 14:32

mikrotik router could probably do that with scripting.

wij · 18 Jan 2011 at 14:53

As you already have it pfSense, captive portal, and a RADIUS server.

Pretty sure it can be made to do per login quota.

Blackbadger · 18 Jan 2011 at 15:17

Thanks for the responses guys.

mikrotik does look good, hwoever it doesnt offer these options "out of the box"
Scripting looks insane.. on the forum people need pages and pages of code for the most simple tasks.. I know that would be far out of my league.

Ok so pfsense and captive portal make sense. I have some test users set up, thats all good. This radius server thing, is that another piece of hardware needed or a service that needs to be sorted ?

wij · 18 Jan 2011 at 17:28

Blackbadger said:
Thanks for the responses guys.

mikrotik does look good, hwoever it doesnt offer these options "out of the box"
Scripting looks insane.. on the forum people need pages and pages of code for the most simple tasks.. I know that would be far out of my league.

Ok so pfsense and captive portal make sense. I have some test users set up, thats all good. This radius server thing, is that another piece of hardware needed or a service that needs to be sorted ?

Not used pf in a very long time but I'm sure there was a RADIUS package for it last time I did.

Probably worth looking on their forums as there's probably quite a few pages about what you're trying to achieve.

Skidilliplop · 19 Jan 2011 at 15:06

I think some of the Palo Alto Firewalls can do it, if you're looking at the hardware firewall route.