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Date:      Wed, 19 Jun 2002 02:50:10 +0100
From:      Jez Hancock <jez.hancock@munkboxen.mine.nu>
To:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Bandwidth billing and measurement scripts
Message-ID:  <20020619025009.A5801@munkboxen.mine.nu>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.020618165932.mark@work.drapple.com>; from mark@work.drapple.com on Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 04:59:32PM -0700
References:  <20020619000227.A5671@munkboxen.mine.nu> <XFMail.020618165932.mark@work.drapple.com>

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On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 04:59:32PM -0700, Mark Hartley wrote:
> I have been using analog (/usr/ports/www/analog) to analyze the apache logfiles
> in this instance. It isn't 100% accurate due to headers & such, but analog does
> give you some reasonably close transfer numbers you can work with.  Add to that
> your analysis of your ftp transfer logs (for their uploading stuff to their
> site), and your analysis (/usr/ports/mail/sma) of the sendmail logs, you can get
> a reasonable number for each client.  I'm doing this, but I do not have it all
> scripted (yet).  I also don't have a really good ftp log analysis app. (any
> suggestions?)
I had heard that this was the standard way of proceeding and was quite
amazed there exists no (de-facto) utility to capture bandwidth consumption details
for a name based web server other than analog et al.

I seem to remember someone mentioning once that a possible way of proceeding would 
be to capture the bandwidth stats at the router/border machine, 
however obviously this would require that the router was capable of doing such logging based on fully
qualified domain names and not IP addresses.

No doubt a utility exists... if not, thank the lord Larry Wall gave us
Perl
:)
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