cisco nat limit max request per pc per port

I share an aDSL connection with a couple people in my house. In the evening, I tend to play some online games in which upstream bandwidth is very important. I had posted about my router keeping "tons of dynamic nat entries" in memory and not clearing them out frequently enough. I thought this was slowing me down and causing my router to mess up. It was therefore affecting my ping on the game server. I was wrong. The router was right.

I found out that someone who is on my network has a habbit of visiting dozens of pr0n sites later in the evening and downloading large pictures and video clips. I don't have a problem with that... what I have a problem with is... he is downloading dozens of clips at a time slowing the connection down. We share the connection but I pay for it. I don't want to cut him off... but I want to frag and he is eating up the bandwidth.

I'm using the latest and greatest Cicso IOS 12.3.xT on a Cisco Broadband 831 router.
(it does not have the QoS included in this image... I need to get more flash to get that image. :( )

Is there any way for me to limit the max connections from a certain IP to certain ports?
example: limit max port 80 connections to 10. etc.

Or, is there a way for me to shape the traffic or give certain protocols priority?

I've seen tutorials on how to shape traffic and limit connections using a linux box... and that will be my last resort. I'd like to try to resolve this with current hardware, just modify the config, if possible.

Thanks in advance!

phishpreek:

Could you let me see the results of show ip route and ip config?

Also, is the client in question wired or wireless?

Phish, use a transparent Squid proxy with delay pools. You can basically set the bandwidth exactly the way you want it.

-Maestr0

Hi

A pity that your image does not support QoS. However, I don't know whether it would
help you for your specific problem. I only used it for increasing the quality of VoIP and, hey,
it worked.

However, there might be another solution, assuming you have enabled NAT ...
Cisco IOS >12.3.4T supports rate limiting NAT translation[1], with which you can limit
the maximum number of "NAT ports" ( :) ) per specific host or even access control list.
One interesting feature of it is the detection of virii/worms, which tend to spread
themselves around, opening many connections.

So you could try to restrict the max number of
NAT entries to 8 for a specific host (not so nice) :

Quote:

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ip nat translation max-entries host 192.168.1.xxx 8

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or, maybe better, limit it for a specific access control list. For example: the
access-list 100 will be limited to 4 concurrent connections:

Quote:

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ip nat translation max-entries list 100 4

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That access control list could look like

Quote:

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...
access-list 100 permit tcp 192.168.1.xxx any eq 80
...

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or something more appropriate.

Cheers

/edit: here it is
[1] http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/...0801d09f0.html