Re: (PM) Data logging and user control
Miquel van Smoorenburg (list-portmaster-users@news.cistron.nl)
16 Jan 1998 18:07:38 +0100
In article <199801161528.BAA08916@mar.coastnet.net.au>,
Terry O'Connor <terry@coastnet.net.au> wrote:
>Help,
>
>Does anyone have any ideas how I can get a Portmaster 2e to report the data
>bytes in and out from a specific hosts on a per sessions basis.
>
>I have a Squid cache for HTTP proxying and want to record bytes per
>sessions in and out that is directed via the cache, data byts from the FTP
>server (on the local site) and a general count of all other traffic.
>
>This is need so that differential charging can be introduced for traffic
>that is local, chached and external to the site.
To do this you need to give all users a static IP address, and then use
a (Linux or FreeBSD) firewall between the portmaster(s) and the rest
of the network to do packet accounting.
Mike.
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