TBH.<br><br>If you want to account bandwidth for billing, put some counters there and then push those on a Cron job to say something like Prometheus Time Series Database as counters or whatever and just bill and graph via that.<br><br>Simple, open source and for the most part gives you heaps of power out of the box.<br><br>--Karl.<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed., 9 Nov. 2016 at 6:20 pm, Damien Gardner Jnr <<a href="mailto:rendrag@rendrag.net">rendrag@rendrag.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="white-space:pre-wrap" class="gmail_msg">You can post to anything you want.. but most newbs will find php examples online easier than nodejs or perl or something ;)</div><br class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg">On Wed., 9 Nov. 2016 at 6:18 pm, Karl Kloppenborg <<a href="mailto:karl@hyperconnect.com.au" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">karl@hyperconnect.com.au</a>> wrote:<br class="gmail_msg"></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote gmail_msg" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">* crontab.<br class="gmail_msg">* iptables.<br class="gmail_msg">* php script.<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">Ring ring 2006?<br class="gmail_msg">Can we have our sysadmin back.<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">(I mean sure, it'll work but it's PHP for one...)<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">--Karl.<br class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg">On Wed., 9 Nov. 2016 at 6:01 pm, Damien Gardner Jnr <<a href="mailto:rendrag@rendrag.net" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">rendrag@rendrag.net</a>> wrote:<br class="gmail_msg"></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote gmail_msg" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg">Well vyatta is just linux, so shove some iptables count rules on there, do an hourly/daily/whatever cronjob to poll them, POST the values to a php script elsewhere, and then clear them, and you're done.</div><div class="gmail_extra gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_extra gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg">On 9 November 2016 at 17:02, Jason Firmino <span dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><<a href="mailto:jason.firmino@gmail.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">jason.firmino@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class="gmail_msg"><blockquote class="gmail_quote gmail_msg" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg">Hey Mark,<div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">Vyatta is what I'm using.</div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">Cheers,</div><div class="gmail_msg">Jason</div></div><div class="m_-1785393650695687655m_-1327733454364940091m_7475912411122835386HOEnZb gmail_msg"><div class="m_-1785393650695687655m_-1327733454364940091m_7475912411122835386h5 gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg">On Wed, 9 Nov 2016 at 16:39 Mark Newton <<a href="mailto:newton@atdot.dotat.org" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">newton@atdot.dotat.org</a>> wrote:<br class="gmail_msg"></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote gmail_msg" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">You haven’t said what provider-edge platform you’re using.<br class="m_-1785393650695687655m_-1327733454364940091m_7475912411122835386m_7813073085555820938gmail_msg gmail_msg">
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If you’re considering netflow, ntop, or nagios, you’re probably coming at the problem from the wrong direction.<br class="m_-1785393650695687655m_-1327733454364940091m_7475912411122835386m_7813073085555820938gmail_msg gmail_msg">
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> On Nov 9, 2016, at 2:50 PM, Jason Firmino <<a href="mailto:jason.firmino@gmail.com" class="m_-1785393650695687655m_-1327733454364940091m_7475912411122835386m_7813073085555820938gmail_msg gmail_msg" target="_blank">jason.firmino@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class="m_-1785393650695687655m_-1327733454364940091m_7475912411122835386m_7813073085555820938gmail_msg gmail_msg">
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> Hello,<br class="m_-1785393650695687655m_-1327733454364940091m_7475912411122835386m_7813073085555820938gmail_msg gmail_msg">
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> Can any of you gentleman/women share some light on a network analyser for billing purposes?<br class="m_-1785393650695687655m_-1327733454364940091m_7475912411122835386m_7813073085555820938gmail_msg gmail_msg">
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> I was looking at things like netflow = Too expensive.<br class="m_-1785393650695687655m_-1327733454364940091m_7475912411122835386m_7813073085555820938gmail_msg gmail_msg">
> NtopNG = Looked like I may have some load issues.<br class="m_-1785393650695687655m_-1327733454364940091m_7475912411122835386m_7813073085555820938gmail_msg gmail_msg">
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> Basically I need to start billing traffic to a couple of customers based on IP address and I want something reliable. Also something cheap or free would be sweet :D<br class="m_-1785393650695687655m_-1327733454364940091m_7475912411122835386m_7813073085555820938gmail_msg gmail_msg">
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> If you have something you use or recommend, any ideas will be much appreciated.<br class="m_-1785393650695687655m_-1327733454364940091m_7475912411122835386m_7813073085555820938gmail_msg gmail_msg">
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> Thanks,<br class="m_-1785393650695687655m_-1327733454364940091m_7475912411122835386m_7813073085555820938gmail_msg gmail_msg">
> Jason Firmino<br class="m_-1785393650695687655m_-1327733454364940091m_7475912411122835386m_7813073085555820938gmail_msg gmail_msg">
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