Re: [PacketFence-users] Control and billing based on bandwidth, rather than time

[Zammit, L. <lu...@ak...>]

Hello Hans,

It depends on the equipment that you are using and which authentication mode you have (Web auth, inline, VLAN enforcement)

PF has two way to monitor bandwidth, in Inline mode where PF is the router and see all the traffic or where you send radius accounting to PF.

What are you trying to achieve here? Do you want to block the users after 5gb per month or send them a warning ?

You can use PacketFence Security events based on quota usage as long you send radiusd accounting with a fairly timed interim updated so PF is aware of the device data consumption.

Let me know if that help.

Thanks,


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> On Nov 8, 2022, at 10:23 PM, Hans Johnson via PacketFence-users <pac...@li...> wrote:
> 
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> Another question here. We operate an organization that’s at a remote site, and provide internet access to our staff and volunteers. Due to the remote site, we’re pretty much stuck with StarLink for our connectivity. They just recently announced a change to their TOS which means we’ll soon be paying $1/GB for our bandwidth (effectively). We have about 60 users and have often been pushing some 200GB/day. We’re on the business package, which means that unless we pay, we get throttled down to 1Mbps after the first 1TB.
> 
> What we’re thinking is that rationing data, akin to mobile phone plans, is the only way we’re still going to be able to give our staff internet access while not going bankrupt. (There is no mobile service at our remote site, and no other options short of going back to VSAT or building a couple microwave relay towers).
> 
> What we’d like to do is provide each user, say, 5GB/mo (So spend $5 each, basically). If they go over that, they can buy additional capacity at cost; we’re not looking to make a profit here, just not go bankrupt.
> 
> I seem to have most of the pieces in place to make this work; I’ve got a firewall that will export traffic data via netflow, I’ve got PF authenticating my users backing against AD via LDAP for username/password/metadata and it’s all run through a captive portal to make it work.
> 
> Is this the kind of thing that I could pull off with PacketFence? I know it has billing functionality, but that seems to be based on time, rather than data usage.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Hans
> 
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