Not quite Sonar but one of the best open source projects for an integrated spam
blocking, web filtering, remote access router is Untanble. It is a commercial-grade open
source alternative to SonicWALL. Runs on generic Intel/AMD hardware or Windows<br><br><a href="http://www.untangle.com">http://www.untangle.com</a><br><br>Regards Roland<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/6/2 Wayne Hewett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:staffwhe@rsc.vic.edu.au">staffwhe@rsc.vic.edu.au</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Greetings all<br>
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Until recently, we have been using an application called SONAR to help cache,moderate,filter and monitor student broadband and internet usage.<br>
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Last year because of budgetry issues and the need to upgarade our hardware, we had to let the system go. As well as an excellent and flexible filter environment, it had real time byte by byte monitoring of individual internet usage.<br>
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Gaia does not seem to do this. We have it at the lowest time setting for review, but students are still over running what they think they owe in download time. If they have money "in the bank" before they begin downloading a file, they can overrun their allotted inernet amount.<br>
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Does anyone have a solution? Are there alernatives out there that monitor real time inernet usage?<br>
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We are quite happy with Gaia's ability to monitor printing costs.<br>
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Wayne Hewett<br>
ICT Chappie a Rosebud Secondary<br>
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