From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 11 15:17:10 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 3994116A4CE for ; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 15:17:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from blue.gerhardt-it.com (gw.gerhardt-it.com [204.83.38.103]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2D7143D58 for ; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 15:17:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scott@g-it.ca) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (hsdbsk69-11-26-32.sasknet.sk.ca [69.11.26.32]) by blue.gerhardt-it.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 177E6FDE6; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 09:17:08 -0600 (CST) In-Reply-To: <40C9CAD0.6060701@beast.clarksys.com> References: <40C9CAD0.6060701@beast.clarksys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v618) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <65871A9D-BBBA-11D8-BCE0-000393801C60@g-it.ca> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Scott Gerhardt Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 09:17:04 -0600 To: Max Clark X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.618) cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 15:17:10 -0000 IPFM works well for tracking usage (/usr/ports/net-mgmt/ipfm). You can parse the logs using perl or whatever to get cumulative statistics. SCR_IPFM works well for generating graphical usage summaries on a daily/monthly/yearly basis (/usr/ports/net/scr_ipfm). -- Scott On Jun 11, 2004, at 9:08 AM, Max Clark wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-isp@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-isp > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-isp-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >