Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 11:36:57 +0100 (CET) From: "Kurt Jaeger" <pi@complx.LF.net> To: tom@sdf.com (Tom) Cc: vandj@securenet.net (Jean M. Vandette), freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IP or packet Accounting Software for burst connections. Message-ID: <m11qZnF-000zzVC@complx.LF.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911232041420.14362-100000@misery.sdf.com> from "Tom" at Nov 23, 1999 08:42:16 PM
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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 ? -- 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
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