From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Nov 26 10:58:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from iohost.com (io001.iohost.com [209.189.124.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54E01154D3 for ; Fri, 26 Nov 1999 10:58:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from randyk@iohost.com) Received: (from randyk@localhost) by iohost.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA01709; Fri, 26 Nov 1999 12:10:47 -0800 Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 12:10:47 -0800 From: Randy Katz To: Dennis Cc: Julian Elischer , Kurt Jaeger , Tom , "Jean M. Vandette" , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, Randy Katz Subject: Re: IP or packet Accounting Software for burst connections. Message-ID: <19991126121047.A1697@ccsales.com> Reply-To: Randy Katz References: <199911261715.MAA10373@etinc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4us In-Reply-To: <199911261715.MAA10373@etinc.com>; from Dennis on Fri, Nov 26, 1999 at 12:11:42PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dennis, Your stuff runs circles around the rest...did you get the gift basket? On Fri, Nov 26, 1999 at 12:11:42PM -0500, Dennis wrote: > Try the ET/BWMGR for FreeBSD...our hashed rule indexing can handle > thousands of IP addresses or traffic type measurements with integrated > graphing and bandwidth management. HTML management interface also. > > > www.etinc.com/bwmgr.htm > > Dennis > > At 02:59 AM 11/24/99 -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > > > >On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Kurt Jaeger wrote: > > > >> Hi! > >> > >> > > > I was wondering if any one would know of a software that would > >> > > > do packet or bandwidth accounting for billing a burstable connection, > >> > > > and also something that would keep track of how many bytes a > >> > > > client consumed during the period (month). > >> > >> > > I modified tcpdump to do bean, ehr, packet/byte counting. > >> > >> > > ftp://ftp.LF.net/pub/unix/systems/FreeBSD/sw/ipcount-19991106.tgz > >> > >> > > It also requires sleepycat's/berkely DB, some 2.7.x version. > >> > >> > > Basically, it will add up the bytes that match a given tcpdump > expression, > >> > > over a configurable interval. > >> > >> > That seems rather silly, since ipfw can do that already. > >> > >> My bean-count-list is roughly 3000 records large. Will ipfw scale to > >> that number of rules ? For 2-3 times 34mbit/sec ? > >> > >> Did it do that in 1996, when I first did this modification ? > > > >ipfw will not count bytes, just packets > >as for performance. > >you can branch using skipto > >so that you split your search list in binary manner and thus do 4096 > >different addresses while only actually running 13 rules. You'd have to > >have a program to generate the ipfw ruleset. > > > > > >> > >> -- > >> MfG/Best regards, Kurt Jaeger 21 years > to go ! > >> LF.net GmbH pi@LF.net Oberon.net GmbH pi@oberon.net > >> Vor dem Lauch 23 fon +49 711 90074-23 Friedrich-Ebert-Str.1 > >> D-70567 Stuttgart fax +49 711 7289041 40210 Duesseldorf fon +49 211 > 179253-11 > >> For Redmond: "nuke the site from orbit -- it's the only way to be sure." > >> > >> > >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > >> > > > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message