Quota total related to MAC rather than IP
Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2012 1:47 pm
This issue has been brought up a couple of times and should be here
in the 'features request' bucket!
Quota byte count based on IP is not as useful as it could be. Rather if
quota counts were related to a MAC address the counts persist over
several login sessions.
Having a DHCP lease lifetime way long to keep the IP/MAC related
works, however one does run out of IP range at some point. Releaseing
the IP after the lease time but having a configuration time to keep a MAC
around helps. When the MAC would show up again, it would be given
any IP that's next and then the quota number be put back in that MACs
total.
Would this be difficult to add?
What are others finding happens related to this situation?
in the 'features request' bucket!
Quota byte count based on IP is not as useful as it could be. Rather if
quota counts were related to a MAC address the counts persist over
several login sessions.
Having a DHCP lease lifetime way long to keep the IP/MAC related
works, however one does run out of IP range at some point. Releaseing
the IP after the lease time but having a configuration time to keep a MAC
around helps. When the MAC would show up again, it would be given
any IP that's next and then the quota number be put back in that MACs
total.
Would this be difficult to add?
What are others finding happens related to this situation?