[73399] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Precise per GB traffic calculations.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W Gilmore)
Fri Aug 20 17:23:31 2004
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Cc: Patrick W Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net>
From: Patrick W Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 17:20:00 -0400
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Aug 20, 2004, at 5:06 PM, Drew Weaver wrote:
> =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Does anyone know of a solution that =
offers precise methods=20
> of tracking bandwidth utilizations at the per Megabyte or Gigabyte=20
> level and not at the rate of transfer level?
>
> =A0
>
> Some people are asking me if we can bill them in this manner, and I'm=20=
> questioning whether the stats that the switch are giving us are that=20=
> accurate.
I don't know of any equipment that does NOT measure per-byte=20
transferred. The Mbps is done by taking the bytes transferred=20
(multiply by 8) and divide by the time involved, usually 5 minute=20
periods.
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TTFN,
patrick=
