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Date:      Tue, 9 Jun 1998 08:43:29 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com>
To:        Dave Siegel <dave@siegelie.com>
Cc:        robert@cyrus.watson.org, tsecula@cisco.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: isp billing s/w
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980609084132.2165A-100000@harlie.bfd.com>
In-Reply-To: <199806091531.IAA06977@seagull.rtd.com>

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On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Dave Siegel wrote:

> I don't know that flow measurements are exactly what you want, however.
> There are probably other ways to get the information you want (you haven't
> gone into any detail).  flow data is *very* expensive to process, summarize,
> and store...or at least it can be depending on your application.

True, if you're only interested in bytes-per-ip-address, that can be done
using ipfw and a perl script invoked by cron to extract the counts,
provided everything you need to track flows through one (or one of a set
of) freebsd box(es).


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