> The contractor will be responsible for his "share" of usage. I need a way
> to keep track of bytes sent, bytes received from the Office Router in order
> to bill the contractor.
Use Radius accounting. Or even syslogging. Each machine has a unique name
and ip and shows up differently in the logs.
>
> Is there any means in the PM2eI or Office router to do statistics gathering
> in order to bill the contractor for usage? I looked through the docs, but
> didn't see anything. If there isn't anything "internal", any suggestions
> for tracking the contractors usage in order to bill?
Use one of the usage/stat packages like MRTG.
> I don't want to do a "flat rate" since he could possibly throw in ton of
> machines and use 80% of my circuit for a flat rate. Anyone have any ideas
> on how set up utilization tracking for billing purposes?
or use usage.pl at ftp.ams.com/pub/livingston. Its just a syslog grepping
perl script that adds up a few numbers and spits out a report.
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Jake Messinger 713-772-6690 jake@ams.com
Advanced Medical Systems, Inc. jake@uh.edu
8300 Bissonnet #400
Houston, Texas 77074 http://www.ams.com/~jake
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