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