You already figured it out: you can't log usage without maintaining state
somewhere. Whether this is a problem depends on how your boss wants to
use the information. If it's for billing then you require logging. If
it's just to get a feel for the distribution of clients in the load, or
something approximate like that, then you can get away with imprecise
methods like sampling. Pass all of the packets to a gadget that only
inspects every hundredth, or thousandth, or whatever is close enough. You
won't get logs but you'll get decent statistics, and maybe that's all you
need. If you miss a few packets during peak activity, your stat.s will
still be close.
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Mark H. Wood, radical centrist OpenPGP ID 876A8B75 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Why do we always draw organization charts upside down?
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