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On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 12:26:51PM -0500, James wrote:
J> > 	that was my thought initially, BUT.. actually... you can
J> > 	actually do this no problem using mrtd dumps and pick it up with a
J> > 	program via bgp device :P no need to create another api it seems :)
J> 
J> errr??? I meant bpf device... 

 Implementing traffic accounting like ip accounting or netflow through
a bpf is generally a bad idea, because of poor performance of such a solution.

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