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On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 08:25 +0200, Andre Pretorius wrote:
> I need to monitor traffic from my network to the internet, I then need
> to charge each user (preferably username and password authentication)
> for the amount of data used.
> Can FreeBSD do this?

Short answer. YES

Long Answer - Check up on setting up a web proxy (if that's what you
want) or use something like ipaudit or netams or a bandwidthd to
determine usage.