On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Drew Weaver wrote: > Does anyone know of a solution that offers precise methods of > tracking bandwidth utilizations at the per Megabyte or Gigabyte level and > not at the rate of transfer level?
I've used a tool called "IOG", which works to some extent, but it looks like it has problems with 64bit counters. > Some people are asking me if we can bill them in this manner, and I'm > questioning whether the stats that the switch are giving us are that > accurate. Imagine this scenario: Customer Buys 600GB of "transfer" Customers transfers 600GB @ 100Mbps for however many hours. If you're being billed with 95th percentile, and your customer is being billed on transfer, guess who gets the short end of the stick...
