The options in "Applies to:" quota drop list could be improved with the addition of an extra option and renaming the existing options. I would label the options in the following way:
Entire local network (individuals)
Entire local network (combined)
Following hosts (individuals)
Following hosts (combined)
All hosts without explicit quotas (individuals)
All hosts without explicit quotas (combined)
These options would allow a clearer setup of quota rules, as well as more detailed policies.
Thoughts?
Quota options
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Re: Quota options
Definitely possible, but not at all trivial to implement. I'll definitely consider it for future releases, but it may be a while as I am working on other things at the moment.
Re: Quota options
Perhaps at least renaming the existing options so that what they do is more clear would be easy?
Entire local network
Only the following Host(s)
All individual hosts without explicit quotas
All hosts without explicit quotas (combined)
Rename the options to:
Entire local network (combined)
Only the following host(s) (combined)
All hosts without explicit quotas (individual)
All hosts without explicit quotas (combined)
Surely this UI change would not be too hard, and it would make it clearer to users what the options do. Perhaps this could be done as a precursor to the addition of more options?
Also, it currently does not allow all unlimited quotas. Say I want to apply a quota to all hosts except just a few, I would set all hosts to have a quota, and then apply an unlimited quota to the block I want. Currently, I use 999TB.
Also, now that throttling is present, you should allow zero quotas, so that some IPs can be throttled. At the moment I just give them a 1mb allowance, but again, this feels a bit like a hack workaround.
Entire local network
Only the following Host(s)
All individual hosts without explicit quotas
All hosts without explicit quotas (combined)
Rename the options to:
Entire local network (combined)
Only the following host(s) (combined)
All hosts without explicit quotas (individual)
All hosts without explicit quotas (combined)
Surely this UI change would not be too hard, and it would make it clearer to users what the options do. Perhaps this could be done as a precursor to the addition of more options?
Also, it currently does not allow all unlimited quotas. Say I want to apply a quota to all hosts except just a few, I would set all hosts to have a quota, and then apply an unlimited quota to the block I want. Currently, I use 999TB.
Also, now that throttling is present, you should allow zero quotas, so that some IPs can be throttled. At the moment I just give them a 1mb allowance, but again, this feels a bit like a hack workaround.