IPv6 traffic metering

[Vladimir Kotal]

On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 11:04:11AM +0200, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've a question about traffic metering with IPv6.
> 
> Our core router is a FreeBSD system (we're a small ISP, so it's
> sufficient for us...).
> 
> I'm looking for tools to count IPv6 packets/bytes based on flows
> that would run on such a system. We want to use it to do traffic
> metering and billing.
> 

I'd advise using Netflow, but this would require :
  - updating to FreeBSD-5.4
  - hacking IPv6 support into ng_netflow(4) (netgraph node in base FBSD install)
  - hacking IPv6 support into net-mgmt/flow-tools (from FBSD ports)


v.