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Subject: Re: Network accounting
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Andrew Seguin wrote:

> 
>  
> 
> I therefore ask out to the list, what recommendations for traffic
> accounting/statistics gathering can you give me?
> 
> 

just for kicks you may look at what glen has in his toolkit (netgraph)
for monitorring stuff.
e.g. the ng_netflow netgraph module and some other stuff that
has been floating around out there.