> How about billing on OutputOctets that way regardless of connect
> speed/retrains you can charge people for the actual amount of bandwidth
> they are using which is surely what this thread is about, not whether
> they get a faster connect of not. If you think about it, it isn't much
> more difficult than time based billing that a lot of us already use.
As long as you don't need to worry about *long* connections. If you have
people that you (a) want to bill by traffic and (b) have single
connections lasting over 1 week, you are in danger of having the octet
count overflow. This is being addressed int the RADIUS working group, but
slowly.
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