On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 11:30:24PM -0400, Joe Abley wrote:
It does, if you don't have per-customer interface counters. You need to count every packet using some other method, and if you can't count packets, you can't bill for them.
i gave up on per-customer interface accounting, didn't scale for me. for a while, i had a BSD box in the middle of my network, and i used ipfw rules (which worked both as counters for accounting, and as ingress/egress filters). we've since moved to cisco, and, well, now i have cache flow stats which are parsed into customer subnets. unfortuneately, i've practically had to install seperate interfaces for the cache flow data, as it is a steady huge flow of data, especially for sub-30 minute periods. -- [ Jim Mercer jim@reptiles.org +1 416 410-5633 ] [ Now with more and longer words for your reading enjoyment. ]