----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Luca Deri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, August 1, 2003 4:18 AM
Subject: Simple Nw Accounting - Was: [Ntop] Bandwith Measurement per User (IP)


> Dear all,
> just to add contribute to this discussion, I am developing for a local 
> ISP a solution for accounting traffic per IP. Then a collector 
> aggregates the various IP in order to have a per-client accouting 
> solution. I have not decided to use ntop because ntop is for me a 
> general tool whereas for these kind of problems we need simple solutions 
> that solve this problem, well, crash-less and with very little resource 
> usage.
> 
> So my solution (currently under test) is the following:
> 1. Linux-based solution
> 2. Kernel module for traffic accounting
> 3. userland RRD-based (it is activated periodically, e.g. every 5 
> minutes) traffic accounting that gathers data and aggregates them.
> 
> How does the solution work. See below.
> 

[snip]

    Just one question:  do the bytesRcvd and bytesSent.rrd files collected 
per host the same data you're intending to collect in the new project ?

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