Precise per GB traffic calculations.
Patrick W Gilmore
patrick at ianai.net
Fri Aug 20 21:20:00 UTC 2004
On Aug 20, 2004, at 5:06 PM, 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?
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> 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.
I don't know of any equipment that does NOT measure per-byte
transferred. The Mbps is done by taking the bytes transferred
(multiply by 8) and divide by the time involved, usually 5 minute
periods.
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TTFN,
patrick
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