[73400] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Precise per GB traffic calculations.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom (UnitedLayer))
Fri Aug 20 17:27:17 2004
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 14:26:41 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Tom (UnitedLayer)" <tom@unitedlayer.com>
To: Drew Weaver <drew.weaver@thenap.com>
Cc: "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <75634F04BFCFD511BF69009027DC8649ACD4D3@mailman.thenap.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Drew Weaver wrote:
> Does anyone know of a solution that offers precise methods of
> tracking bandwidth utilizations at the per Megabyte or Gigabyte level and
> not at the rate of transfer level?
I've used a tool called "IOG", which works to some extent, but it looks
like it has problems with 64bit counters.
> Some people are asking me if we can bill them in this manner, and I'm
> questioning whether the stats that the switch are giving us are that
> accurate.
Imagine this scenario:
Customer Buys 600GB of "transfer"
Customers transfers 600GB @ 100Mbps for however many hours.
If you're being billed with 95th percentile, and your customer is being
billed on transfer, guess who gets the short end of the stick...
