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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
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Subject: Re: From WinNT to FreeBSD
To: jasonm@barney.webace.com.au (Jason McKay)
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 10:57:25 -0700 (PDT)
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970820000722.668A-100000@barney.webace.com.au> from "Jason McKay" at Aug 20, 97 00:20:47 am
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Jason McKay wrote:
> 
> We are currently operating an ISP under Windows NT Server 4, and are
> seriously thinking about changing and running it under FreeBSD 2.2.2.
> 
> There is only one thing holding us back, it is very important that we keep
> track of our users, such as login times and length of login plus how much
> they are downloading per call.
> 
> Windows NT displays all this information easily, I have not yet found a
> way to receive the same level of info from FreeBSD .. Can anyone please
> suggest some ideas?  As we _REALLY_ want to change over ASAP.

	if each user has their own ip address, you can use ipfw(8)'s
	accounting to keep track of how much data they download.
	man ipfw.   something similar to
	"/sbin/ipfw add <rul#> log any from any to <their ip>"

	you will need one rule for each ip address.
	reset the counter when they logout.

	accounting will track when connect time and system usage
	(never used accounting myself).  man sa and acct and lastcomm.

jmb