[Technical] Inernet charging application and student quotas

[Roland Gesthuizen]

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

http://www.untangle.com

Regards Roland

2009/6/2 Wayne Hewett <staffwhe at rsc.vic.edu.au>

> Greetings all
>
> Until recently, we have been using an application called SONAR to help
> cache,moderate,filter and monitor student broadband and internet usage.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Does anyone have a solution? Are there alernatives out there that monitor
> real time inernet usage?
>
> We are quite happy with Gaia's ability to monitor printing costs.
>
> Wayne Hewett
> ICT Chappie a Rosebud Secondary
>
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