[112563] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Usage-Based Billing for DIA
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Thu Mar 5 19:41:44 2009
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 19:41:32 -0500 (EST)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
To: "Rodriguez, Mauricio" <Mauricio.Rodriguez@fpl.com>
In-Reply-To: <EAC92A711800DB4B92C0371BD874955D22ABA36F7F@GOXEXVS02.fplu.fpl.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Rodriguez, Mauricio wrote:
> Looking at possibilities for an implementation of usage-based billing,
> it seems that the same techniques and tools always come up. I'm looking
> for some feedback from the list on experiences with these tools and
> techniques as well as alternatives that may not be listed here.
>
> +Techniques
> --Flow data (Netflow, SFlow, etc) analysis to determine
> 95th percentile traffic levels
> --SNMP polling of interface counters to determine 95th
> percentile traffic levels
I need to look into this in the near future as well. The problems I'm
aware of are:
1) we have customers on policed ports, and the interface snmp counters
count packets before service-policy. It doesn't seem right to bill for
packets we dropped :)...so this isn't useful data for billing purposes.
2) our customer agg gear (cisco 3550s) don't do netflow. Our bigger
switches the agg gear uplinks to does (6509 sup720-3bxls), but can't
handle export of full netflow, so we run sampled. It's still useful for
abuse tracking, but billing based on it would require some large
assumptions and multipliers...unlikely to be of use.
The remaining option I'm aware of is to use monitor sessions to send a
copy of our traffic to a system/device which would then either generate
"full" netflow data or just distill the traffic into data xfered per
IP/network. What are people using for this on the several hundred mbit/s
to a few gigabits/s or more range?
Are there other ways?
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