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Date:      Fri, 26 Nov 1999 12:10:47 -0800
From:      Randy Katz <randyk@ccsales.com>
To:        Dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
Cc:        Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, Kurt Jaeger <pi@complx.LF.net>, Tom <tom@sdf.com>, "Jean M. Vandette" <vandj@securenet.net>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, Randy Katz <randyk@ccsales.com>
Subject:   Re: IP or packet Accounting Software for burst connections.
Message-ID:  <19991126121047.A1697@ccsales.com>
In-Reply-To: <199911261715.MAA10373@etinc.com>; from Dennis on Fri, Nov 26, 1999 at 12:11:42PM -0500
References:  <m11qZnF-000zzVC@complx.LF.net> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911240250240.11412-100000@current1.whistle. com> <199911261715.MAA10373@etinc.com>

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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
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