On Sun, 2 Mar 2003 05:36:40 -0800 (PST), Prashant Desai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi all > > we are a small internet service provider ,we are > right now using mrtg & ntop along with netflow plugin > to monitor the network usage, ..on-topic this far, both do network monitoring nicely. > now the thing is that we need to monitor the usage & > traffic in real time based on the end users ip > address,as we are using different ip address pools for > cyber cafe ,corporates & home/residential customers > now we have no idea how much bandwidth these different > category of customers are using actually ? but we > definately want to know this as based on that we can > plan other things like pricing etc , i have look > around to find any such tool which can show this based > on the ip address networks as i strongly feel that > there must be lot of guys out there who must me doing > this ,so kindly point me to some link from where i > can get the suitable stuff ..now, do you want to _control_ bandwidth usage etc, to deliver the services to your paying clients? Or, will _monitoring_ do the job, "good enough", for you? ..I'm setting up control gear for a local 802.11 based isp here, we started with throttling the bandwidth, and use poptop tunnels to wrap in all the traffic, some of the cheaper routers can only manage 256 connections before they stall and reboot. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Ntop mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop
