[30365] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: bw usage?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Sat Jul 29 03:29:22 2000
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Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 15:37:05 -0400
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From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
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At 03:36 PM 7/26/2000 -0500, Paul Froutan wrote:
>Depending on which switch you're using, you can also poll the switch for
>broadcast and multicast on the port and subtract that from the total so you
>don't bill for that.
Does anyone actually do this? I thought everyone accounted for all traffic
on the port. Of course, the customer ends up paying some extra, but the
traffic did go over your network, and if you did not have the equipment,
bandwidth, etc., to handle it, the customer's "real" bits would not get
through.
This is true even of customers with multiple links to the same provider who
talk between machines in their own network over the provider's switch. (Of
course, the customer can easily solve that with a tiny bit of clue - and
fortunately for most colo providers' bottom lines, most customers do not
have even that much clue. :)
>Paul Froutan Email:
TTFN,
patrick
