<div dir="ltr">Basically I need to bill my clients for upstream and downstream traffic and I just want more granular data than what zabbix/nagios gives me.<div><div><br></div><div>I also need the history, for finance audit purposes.</div><div><br></div><div>I had a glimpse at pmacct and it looks very slick. </div><div><br></div><div>Let's continue the search :D</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Jason Firmino</div><div><div><br></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, 9 Nov 2016 at 15:15 Philip Loenneker <<a href="mailto:Philip.Loenneker@tasmanet.com.au">Philip.Loenneker@tasmanet.com.au</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">





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<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg">Pmacct looks very interesting. I’ll file that away for future investigation
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<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg">Jason, what is the customer connection method? If you can utilise RADIUS to authenticate them (PPPoE or IPoE/DHCP), then you could
 potentially expand that to accounting as well. That also gives the potential to utilise COA to apply on-demand traffic shaping based on usage or time or whatever, which may be useful for customers that don’t want excess usage charges.<u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></span></p>
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<b class="gmail_msg">On Behalf Of </b>Cameron Murray<br class="gmail_msg">
<b class="gmail_msg">Sent:</b> Wednesday, 9 November 2016 3:07 PM<br class="gmail_msg">
<b class="gmail_msg">To:</b> Ross Wheeler <<a href="mailto:ausnog@rossw.net" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">ausnog@rossw.net</a>><br class="gmail_msg">
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<b class="gmail_msg">Subject:</b> Re: [AusNOG] Network analyser<u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></span></p></div></div><div lang="EN-AU" link="blue" vlink="purple" class="gmail_msg"><div class="m_2415229172439308964WordSection1 gmail_msg">
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<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg">We utilize pmacct + custom whmcs module for billing. It is still in testing phases however it is working really well to date.<u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
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Basically I need to start billing traffic to a couple of customers based on<br class="gmail_msg">
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Depending on how much traffic, how many customers, resources, etc... ipfw with "COUNT" rules might meet your "cheap or free" desire without sacrificing too much performance?<br class="gmail_msg">
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Simple cron job to collect (and optionally reset) the counters periodically and inject into your billing system?<u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
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