Generic quotas and dhcp

[lemonsqueeze]

Hi,

Recently i needed to implement download quotas on a shared wifi network with many guests (dhcp). I could only try an old version of gargoyle (1.4.7) as the router didn't support newer builds (an old linksys wrt54gl 1.1)

The generic quota option was perfect:
- create new quota
- applies to all individual hosts without explicit quota
- max download: limit to 150Mb
- quota resets: every month
- when exceeded: throttle bandwidth 50k/s

However i noticed quota was per ip address: if a guest changes ip address his quota changes. That was a show stopper in this case.

I ended up implementing download quotas per mac address on top of OpenWrt but maybe there is support for this in newer versions of Gargoyle already.

Could someone confirm whether generic quotas are ip-based or mac-based in current Gargoyle ?

Cheers,
Matt

[Lantis]

They are still IP based.
In general, the idea is to apply static IPs through the DHCP configuration page for devices you want to control with quotas.