On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 09:42:59PM -0400, Leo Bicknell wrote:
So, what is the problem?
You have a multicast sender on your network, and the 5 clients are on 5 different peer networks. You just carried 5 times the traffic on your network, and billed your client once.
Do source based accounting on egress into your peering points and cross charge sent multicast traffic back to the traffic-source. Or better, change the peering policy costs for multicast traffic to better adopt to it's characteristics. But agreed. This is the case where the source get's the most added value out of your service without the currently set up accounting schemes to work well. It would certainly be possible to nicely keep the accounting problem down to the ingress router by aggregating these egress link counts via PIM. Cheers Toerless