28-Jan-03 at 12:20, Dave Seddon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > Thanks for your responce. > > > If your DSL box produces RADIUS accounting packets, then I don't see > > why this would be necessary. > > Most ISP billing packages are designed to bill stardard dialup, where > there is a start and a stop. DSL ppp sessions stay up for ages, so a > seesion might go for more than a month. Also, billing packages usually > show pretty graphs of usage, based on starts and stops. Therefore, it > would make billing really easy if for each 'Alive' recieved, a start and > a stop was sent to the Billing system. It would appear as if each DSL > customer connected and disconnected every ten minutes. > > Maybe you have an idea of an easier way?
The way I have heard of is to use Linux traffic shaping on a 2.4.x kernel, where iptables will keep track of how much bandwidth each IP has used as long as you get the rules right. However that's not trivial either if DHCP allocates a different IP each time there is an on/off, but then that can be tracked in liaison with Radius logs. Good luck. -- |-Simon White, Internet Services Manager, Certified Check Point CCSA. |-MTDS Internet, Security, Anti-Virus, Linux and Hosting Solutions. |-MTDS 14, rue du 16 novembre, Agdal, Rabat, Morocco. |-MTDS tel +212.3.767.4861 - fax +212.3.767.4863 - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
