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Date:      Wed, 24 Nov 1999 03:20:09 -0800 (PST)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        Kurt Jaeger <pi@complx.LF.net>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IP or packet Accounting Software for burst connections.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911240315290.11412-100000@current1.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <m11qaCT-000zzSC@complx.LF.net>

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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
> 
> > > >   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.
> 
> I see. Bascially, we need it to count bytes.
> 
> Ah, there is another way of doing it: www.ipmeter.com.

bpf basically copies packets but it is possible that it can just return
the length and not all he data.(i'd have to check)


> 
> > 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.
> 
> It's not addresses, it's different networks. Some are /27, some /29, some
> /24, etc.

that would still be splitable in a binary tree fashion..


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