[112589] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Usage-Based Billing for DIA
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Stickland)
Mon Mar 9 05:30:28 2009
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:30:14 +0000
From: Sam Stickland <sam_mailinglists@spacething.org>
To: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0903051710040.6312@soloth.lewis.org>
Cc: "Rodriguez, Mauricio" <Mauricio.Rodriguez@fpl.com>,
"nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Jon Lewis wrote:
> 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.
>
Torrus (www.torrus.org) can use the Cisco MIBs to graph pre and
post-policy packets.
http://www.torrus.org/plugins/tp-cisco-cbqos.pod.html
Sam
