Hosting provider allocation advice

[Garry Dolley]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 05:36:09PM +0200, Wouter de Jong wrote:
> It can be hard, cause your device must support it :))
> 
> We've put a fiber-tap between our fibers to our 
> border routers, and run an accounting program that fills a database with
> 
> src dst traffic insert-date. So internal traffic from vlan <-> vlan is
> for free, 
> but traffic that goes to our Peerings/Transit, get's billed.

Man, you guys are sure doing it the hard way ;)

Why not just monitor customer interfaces, whether it be VLANs,
physical ports on routers/switches, even *nix boxes, pop the data in
Cacti / RRD, and write some scripts to report 95th percentile and/or
total data transfer?  Cacti already has templates for both of these
methods.

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