IPv6 traffic metering

[Mohacsi Janos]

On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Vladimir Kotal wrote:

> 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)
>

There are some alternatives to netflow which supports IPv6 (Netflow v9). 
You can try:
flowd and softflowd - see port net-mgmt/flowd and net-mgmt/softflowd
or
you can try
pmacct and pmacct-fe - see port net-mgmt/pmacct

Regards,

Janos Mohacsi
Network Engineer, Research Associate
NIIF/HUNGARNET, HUNGARY
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