Re: [cobalt-developers] Bandwidth measurement/accounting

[Andres Petralli <petralli@xxxxxxxxx>]

I heard about that packetshaper, but don't like it very much, since it
increases network overhead by a third! Yes, since it "shapes" those
packets and generates a lot of smaller packets for the same
information.... I need an accounting/QOS software that reduces traffic,
not increasing it.

Anyway, thanks for the hint.

Andres

John Brahy wrote:

> There is MRTG which monitors SNMP data from your network and
> can do some accounting, depending on your network setup. The
> best one out there is packetshaper. it isn't a piece of software
> but it is hardware that costs about 20k.
> It will do everything you could want. Accounting down to the
> webpage and the content type of it. You can do QOS and service
> level guarentees.
>
> John
>
> Andres Petralli wrote:
> >
> > Dear Cobalt Users,
> > does anyone of you know a good piece of software that can be used
> > to do bandwidth and transfer accounting? We are an ISP that offer
> > Cobalt appliances for rent. Monthly prices are based on
> > transfer-volumes. Of course, now we have to find a good solution
> > on how to monitor traffic. This piece of software should be able
> > to log to a plaintext file or maybe even directly into a
> > database. If anyone of you has a good advice or even the name of
> > a good application, we would be very glad to hear from you. I
> > know there are a lot of other ISPs that have to do the same task,
> > so, if you'd like to help us over here in Switzerland, we would
> > be very glad.
> >
> > And of course, if that application is open-source, even better
> > :-)
> >
> > Thank you for your time
> >
> > Andres Petralli
> >
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