From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Nov 26 9:14:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from etinc.com (et-gw.etinc.com [207.252.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1563415095 for ; Fri, 26 Nov 1999 09:14:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dennis@etinc.com) Received: from dbsys (dbsys.etinc.com [207.252.1.18]) by etinc.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA10373; Fri, 26 Nov 1999 12:15:27 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199911261715.MAA10373@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 12:11:42 -0500 To: Julian Elischer , Kurt Jaeger From: Dennis Subject: Re: IP or packet Accounting Software for burst connections. Cc: Tom , "Jean M. Vandette" , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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