Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 00:34:08 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.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.4.05.9911250023110.99249-100000@freja.webgiro.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. > > > 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. Please take a look at NeTraMet. It's very sophisticated and reliable tool, written exactly for this purpose. Exact URL escapes me, but you can start at www.caida.org.You can also search by author: Nevil Brownlee. I was using this software for a couple of years, and it's stable and mature. You can configure the detail level and type of traffic by almost any rule - it has its own programming language to construct procedures that match and count packets/bytes. There are additional tools available that help processing the logs. Using FreeBSD on a Pentium 133MHz I was abl to properly count ca. 3500 packets/s, for a couple hundred different subnets. Andrzej Bialecki // <abial@webgiro.com> WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ------------------------------------------------------------------- // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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