From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 11 15:08:00 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73DD816A4CE for ; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 15:08:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from beast.clarksys.com (sm02.cthought.com [64.81.233.33]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 151D443D39 for ; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 15:08:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from maxc@beast.clarksys.com) Received: (qmail 48924 invoked from network); 11 Jun 2004 15:05:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?127.0.0.1?) (192.168.69.133) by sm02.cthought.com with SMTP; 11 Jun 2004 15:05:31 -0000 Message-ID: <40C9CAD0.6060701@beast.clarksys.com> Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 08:08:00 -0700 From: Max Clark User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (Windows/20040502) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Bandwidth Usage Billing X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 15:08:00 -0000 Hi all, So it's pretty common for ISPs to do usage based bandwidth billing (GB Transfered and 95th Percentile), my question is... how do you set this up? MRTG is the defacto snmp bandwidth monitoring tool, however it does not track total GB transfered and the 95th percentile without external hacks, and even with this, your data will be truncated rather quickly. How does one set up a bandwidth billing system (are there systems already out there for this) to track their customer's usage? Thanks in advance, Max