Re: [cobalt-users] Bandwidth Calculations?

[Elmer Fuddpucker <elmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Footballist   wrote:

}  But that did not work.  For my bigger abusers, I have set rules in my
} "ipchain" to drop their packets on the floor.  I am wondering if all
} those "unwanted" incoming traffic is calculated by my provider?

Traffic is traffic - regardless of whether you want it or not. If
you are being billed for bandwidth you're probably paying on a 95th
percentile and that may be applied to the highest usage - in or out,
so figuring out how much this is costing you can be a bit difficult.

} 2. I do lots of non-httpd traffic on my own (i.e. upload and download
} huge files using rsync).  Does this traffic show up on my bandwidth traffic?

Traffic is traffic...

} 3. If I go fetching some pages (i.e. spider or crawlwer) using non httpd
} means, do these traffics affect my bandwidth charges?

See answer two above.

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