[MLB-WIRELESS] Internet proxy sharing

[Peter Lieverdink]

Jarrod Neven wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I am sharing out internet two 3 other people in my area because Hel 
> $tra thinks that Point Cook is a part of the third world, thus not  
> able to get ADSL.
> 
> Sounds easy, setup a proxy with authentication.  Problem is I get  
> charged by the mb, so I need to tightly control how much internet is  
> let out and to who (quota management).
>
> I have been using the following products, with limited success.
> * LiveCD (which is a captive portal, has issues)
> * DD-WRT Sputnik (expensive)
> * DD-WRT Chillispot (could not get it to work)
> * WinGate (no quota)
> * CCProxy (no quota)
> * Microsoft ISA with bandwidth splitter plugin (currently using, has  
> issues)
>
> As you can tell by the list I am not strong with Linux, but I am  
> willing to learn.  From what I have been reading Squid does not  
> provide any quota management either. The only good Linux stuff I can  
> find are captive portals (ie Chillispot).   I need to share internet  
> over more then one hop (MyNode-> AnotherNode-> ClientNode) so I dont  
> think that will work (please correct me if I am wrong).

Squid can't do quota, but a squid plugin such as squidguard might. Squid
*can* do authentication though.

- P.
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