Re: (PM) Filtering Mail Pings
Stefan Hudson (hudson@mbay.net)
Thu, 22 Jan 1998 12:02:55 -0800
On Thu, Jan 22, 1998 at 08:57:40AM +0100, Florian Lohoff wrote:
>
> Filtering data which goes into the idle timer is not the solution as i can
> have a tool using an undocumented protocol all the time.
>
> The solution others go is a Average Bandwith monitoring and not resetting
> idle if avg/Bandwith doesn't go above. Other way round. If avg/Bandwith
> goes below a specific level which is based on expiriences with
> interactive/sufing users then the line is disconnected after some specific
> time. This avg/Bandwith should be more than polling pop-3 every
> 2 minutes and pinging some host ...
>
> This could be done by a simple script monitoring the lines
> accouting interface bytes per time and then disconnecting users if below.
Okay, then what about users with a "valid" low-bandwidth application, such as
IRC or some online games?
There is simply no perfect solution to this problem. Educating users seems
to be the best approach.
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