IPQUOTA(8)

NAME
ipquota - daemon to impose ip quota on users

SYNOPSIS
ipquota [ -vh ]

DESCRIPTION
ipquota is a daemon process which is to be run via ipacctd(8). It uses the statistics produced by ipacctd to impose an ip quota an certain users. The traffic a user produced since the last call of ipquota is subtracted from his ip quota which is stored in @QUOTA_STATS@.

If the quota of the user reaches zero, any further access by this user to the net is denied, with the exception of ip addresses which are recorded with a weight of zero in the kernel (see ipacct(8)).

OPTIONS
ipquota allows the following options:

-v  Display the version of ipquota

-h  Display a short usage message

FILES
@QUOTA_STATS@

BUGS
Some sort of soft limit is missing at the moment, like sending a mail to the user or displaying a message on his terminal. One cannot impose an ip quota on the superuser. This can be considered a feature. Well, there are no other bugs known so far, but if you find one or have suggestions and improvements in mind, please mail them to me (see AUTHOR below).

SEE ALSO
sayip(1), ipadd(8), ipacct(8), ipacctd(8)

AUTHOR
Original program by Joao Ventura (jcv@students.fct.unl.pt).
Complete rewrite by Lars Fenneberg (lf@gimli.comlink.de).