From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Nov 24 20:36:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.213.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3287D14C37 for ; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 20:36:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@sdf.com) Received: from tom (helo=localhost) by misery.sdf.com with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 11qp6Y-0004v4-00; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 18:57:54 -0800 Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 18:57:52 -0800 (PST) From: Tom To: Kurt Jaeger Cc: "Jean M. Vandette" , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IP or packet Accounting Software for burst connections. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 ? Well, think about it, how could it be any slower? Are bpf rules more efficient than ipfw rules since they have to be evaluated at the same layer? Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message