[TEST/REVIEW] Netflow implementation

Gleb Smirnoff glebius at freebsd.org
Thu Sep 9 12:35:10 PDT 2004


On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 08:11:01PM +0200, Andre Oppermann wrote:
A> What is the point of Netflow accounting?  (And I do run an ISP.)
A> Is it to get overall AS to/from AS traffic statistics?  Then Netflow
A> is not very good for that.  Do you really need information on every
A> flow?  Are you going to report to the customer he had 4575 TCP flows
A> at $0.03 each at the end of the month?

it is already offtopic, but...

Here in Russia (and other C.I.S. countries) there are different classes
of traffic, so at the end of the month you have to report to your
customer that he has X Gb of free traffic, Y Gb of cheap traffic
and Z Gb of expensive. And he may request a detalization.

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