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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Pmacct looks very interesting. I’ll file that away for future investigation
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Cameron Murray<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 9 November 2016 3:07 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Ross Wheeler <ausnog@rossw.net><br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusNOG] Network analyser<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We utilize pmacct + custom whmcs module for billing. It is still in testing phases however it is working really well to date.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 1:58 PM, Ross Wheeler <<a href="mailto:ausnog@rossw.net" target="_blank">ausnog@rossw.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello,<br>
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Basically I need to start billing traffic to a couple of customers based on<br>
IP address and I want something reliable. Also something cheap or free<br>
would be sweet :D<o:p></o:p></p>
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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>
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Simple cron job to collect (and optionally reset) the counters periodically and inject into your billing system?<o:p></o:p></p>
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