Unfortunately not. :( However a couple other technicians from the office will 
be there for the festivities. Perhaps I'll have them seek you out specifically 
:)

-Tim

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Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2015 6:28 PM
To: Timothy D. McNabb
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT - MT usage stats

Timothy,

Are you going to AF?

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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 options 
TDM> on the table right now until I can find one that will do the job of 
TDM> what we're looking for.

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

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

TDM> Regards,

TDM> -Tim

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TDM> From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark - Myakka 
TDM> 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 the IP 
TDM> accounting feature of MT.  I've been working on and off of doing 
TDM> some internal usage monitoring on clients MT's to see what devices 
TDM> internally are using the bandwidth.  I've tried a bunch of 
TDM> 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

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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. 
TDM>> I�ve also been investigating TrafficFlow but parsing that data 
TDM>> could be a coders nightmare (or not, all I know is my eyes bleed 
TDM>> looking at it).

TDM>> �

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