Greetings, Yeah IP accouting is how I do it now. I use a FreeBSD bridge box, so nobody can even see it. Works well, however it makes billing on-net traffic difficult if you aren't billing the PPP sessions.
thanks, Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: Simon White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 7:55 pm Subject: Re: DSL Accouting? > 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Would you like to receive faxes to your personal email address? You can with mBox. Visit http://www.mbox.com.au/fax - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
