From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Nov 24 3: 4:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from complx.LF.net (complx.LF.net [212.118.160.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB6EB15001 for ; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 03:04:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pi@complx.LF.net) Received: by complx.LF.net (Smail3.2.0.106/complx.LF.net) via LF.net GmbH Internet Services from pi for freebsd-isp@Freebsd.org for host hub.Freebsd.org id m11qaCT-000zzSC; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 12:03:01 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: Subject: Re: IP or packet Accounting Software for burst connections. To: freebsd-isp@Freebsd.org Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 12:03:01 +0100 (CET) From: "Kurt Jaeger" In-Reply-To: from "Julian Elischer" at Nov 24, 1999 02:59:42 AM X-NCC-RegID: de.oberon MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi! > > > > > I was wondering if any one would know of a software that would > > > > > do packet or bandwidth accounting for billing a burstable connection, > > > > > and also something that would keep track of how many bytes a > > > > > client consumed during the period (month). > > > > I modified tcpdump to do bean, ehr, packet/byte counting. > > > > > > ftp://ftp.LF.net/pub/unix/systems/FreeBSD/sw/ipcount-19991106.tgz > > > That seems rather silly, since ipfw can do that already. > > My bean-count-list is roughly 3000 records large. Will ipfw scale to > > that number of rules ? For 2-3 times 34mbit/sec ? > > Did it do that in 1996, when I first did this modification ? > ipfw will not count bytes, just packets > as for performance. I see. Bascially, we need it to count bytes. Ah, there is another way of doing it: www.ipmeter.com. > you can branch using skipto > so that you split your search list in binary manner and thus do 4096 > different addresses while only actually running 13 rules. You'd have to > have a program to generate the ipfw ruleset. It's not addresses, it's different networks. Some are /27, some /29, some /24, etc. -- MfG/Best regards, Kurt Jaeger 21 years to go ! LF.net GmbH pi@LF.net Oberon.net GmbH pi@oberon.net Vor dem Lauch 23 fon +49 711 90074-23 Friedrich-Ebert-Str.1 D-70567 Stuttgart fax +49 711 7289041 40210 Duesseldorf fon +49 211 179253-11 For Redmond: "nuke the site from orbit -- it's the only way to be sure." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message