Timothy,

I was polling every 5-7 minutes.  Also, I was doing this at each
mikrotik at each tower and not trying to do it at an edge router.

At the end of the day I've convinced myself if I miss a few packets
the earth would not end.  Never had a customer call me up to tell me
they thought they were use more than I was reporting.

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Friday, January 23, 2015, 2:51:07 PM, you wrote:

TDM> I'd be interested in this if you're willing to share. All
TDM> options on the table right now until I can find one that will do
TDM> the job of what we're looking for.

TDM> I did investigate this (oops I confused TrafficFlow with an
TDM> actual URL, was actually referring to the Accounting) but I
TDM> thought it might be problematic due to the limitations of what is
TDM> displayed. Each of the counters appear to be tcp connection based
TDM> a la NTop and 8192 (the limit) seems like a small number. When
TDM> you have webpages that spawn anywhere from 10-15 TCP connections
TDM> each (and each entry uses 100 bytes), it can start to add up
TDM> quick especially if you have a high customer count pumping
TDM> through the router. How do you gauge something like that to poll
TDM> and maintain usage accuracy? If I am misinterpreting, please tell
TDM> me :-)

TDM> Also interested in Cameron's take on this issue as well. I
TDM> can be hit up offlist for both at [email protected]. And I really
TDM> appreciate the shares :-)

TDM> Regards,

TDM> -Tim

TDM> -----Original Message-----
TDM> From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark - Myakka 
Technologies
TDM> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 5:42 PM
TDM> To: Timothy D. McNabb
TDM> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT - MT usage stats

TDM> Timothy,

TDM> On the wireless side pre-radius I wrote some code that uses
TDM> the IP accounting feature of MT.  I've been working on and off of
TDM> doing some internal usage monitoring on clients MT's to see what
TDM> devices internally are using the bandwidth.  I've tried a bunch
TDM> of different things, but keep coming back to the IP Accounting. 
TDM> It is just easy to deal with.

TDM> -Turn it on, set the buffer to the max (8k I think)

TDM> -Write a PHP or PERL script to do a WGET or some other web page grab every 
few minutes.

TDM> -Parse the data

TDM> -Update SQL Table

TDM> --
TDM> Best regards,
TDM>  Mark                            mailto:[email protected]

TDM> Myakka Technologies, Inc.
TDM> www.MyakkaTech.com

TDM> Proud Sponsor of the Myakka City Relay For Life
TDM> http://www.RelayForLife.org/MyakkaCityFL

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TDM> 
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TDM> Thursday, January 22, 2015, 7:00:52 PM, you wrote:

TDM>> Ya we�re doing that now on PPPoE clients. The PPPoE server sends
TDM>> interm accounting at the interval specified. However what I am 
TDM>> looking specifically for non-PPPoE statically-assigned clients. 
TDM>> There are several different types of scripts spread across the web
TDM>> ad nauseam but nothing that gives me what I�m looking for. I�ve
TDM>> also been investigating TrafficFlow but parsing that data could be
TDM>> a coders nightmare (or not, all I know is my eyes bleed looking at
TDM>> it).

TDM>> �

TDM>> Butch � looking to catalog upload and download stats per customer
TDM>> IP (non-PPPoE). Passthroughs work as planned but of course you have
TDM>> two fields (Src Address and Dst Address). I�m not interested in
TDM>> what websites they visited (ie TrafficFlow url) so much as the 
TDM>> amount of data used. If we can get Up/Down then of course we can
TDM>> create a cumulative field as well.

TDM>> �

TDM>> -Tim

TDM>> �

TDM>> From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Adam Moffett
TDM>> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 3:51 PM
TDM>> To: [email protected]
TDM>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT - MT usage stats



TDM>> �

TDM>> �

TDM>> I don't exactly have an answer.....but maybe a direction to 
TDM>> look.� MT has RADIUS support for DHCP.� The intent is to 
TDM>> authenticate based on the DHCP client's MAC address.....does that
TDM>> support RADIUS accounting?� If so then pair that with FreeRADIUS
TDM>> and I think you can get usage stats into SQL that way.


TDM>> Was wondering if anyone had come up with a nifty-keeno way to 
TDM>> export usage counters to a SQL database? Trying not to re-invent
TDM>> the wheel, just modify it with 22�s on spinners or something 
TDM>> fancy. Currently mapping that information through mangle rules, 
TDM>> however Passthroughs are an option as well.

TDM>> �

TDM>> -Tim

TDM>> �



TDM>> �






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