Skip to main content
ph2t
New Member
March 31, 2011
Question

limit downloads

  • March 31, 2011
  • 5 replies
  • 6001 views
G' day! 310B unit running MR3. How do I limit the downloads of users? Not the bandwidth but the total in bytes? Many thanks, Matt.

    5 replies

    ejhardin
    New Member
    March 31, 2011
    Maybe....You can use DLP, set to http-GET and set the file size to the limit you want. Set it to block.
    billp
    New Member
    March 31, 2011
    Welcome to the forums. As far as I can tell, you can only set quotas for time spent on a certain category of site. You can' t specify a download quota of, say, 10GB/day for a user. I' m not sure why this is excluded -- seems like it would have been an easy one. If you want to do traffic shaping to limit bandwidth consumption, that is an option available from the menus. Not sure that' s what you wanted.
    ejhardin
    New Member
    March 31, 2011
    I understood it has he would like to allow users to access the internet but does not want a user to download a file larger than x.
    ph2t
    ph2tAuthor
    New Member
    April 1, 2011
    Many thanks for the quick replies fellas, much appreciated... What I want to do is limit a user' s total downloads over a period of time (eg: User A can surf a max of 2GB a day). Ideally I would like the following: 1) User surfs (http/https) at traffic shaped 1mb/s. 2) User triggers max d/l of 2GB within an 8 hr window. 3) User is then shaped to 100kb/s. I' m getting a 60C to play with soon, may try out the DLP on that. Interesting suggestion. thanks, Matt.
    billp
    New Member
    April 1, 2011
    That would be a great feature set. I could definitely use something like that. Traffic shaping is not enough for some users -- a hard download limit is needed.
    Thought Leadership. Security Summit. Thursday, November 12th, PGA National Resort, Palm Beach Gardens, FL.
    Thought Leadership. Security Summit. Thursday, October 8th. Disney's Grand Californian Hotel & SPA, Anaheim, CA.