Sflow billing or usage calculation software

Tom Beecher beecher at beecher.cc
Sat Apr 13 23:24:19 UTC 2019


I’m curious what the service is that 50Mbps avg over a 24 hr window is an
investigative threshold.

On Sat, Apr 13, 2019 at 17:57 Peter Phaal <peter.phaal at gmail.com> wrote:

> Tony,
>
> You might find the following article useful in identifying features to
> consider when evaluating sFlow analyzers:
> https://blog.sflow.com/2009/05/choosing-sflow-analyzer.html
>
> The following white paper discusses accuracy of packet sampling for usage
> accounting:
> https://inmon.com/pdf/sFlowBilling.pdf
>
>
> Peter
>
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 13, 2019 at 2:07 PM Tony C <tonycane at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>
>> Hi All
>>
>> I am looking for Sflow analytical software that can tell me automatically
>> over say a period of 24 hours (or any time period I select) the average
>> mbit of data consumed for any IP address within our entire AS.
>>
>> (Without configuring a rule or billing group for each IP address or
>> customer within our network)
>>
>> The purpose is to help quickly work out IP addressees which are using
>> more bandwidth (in or out) than what we consider to be acceptable usage.
>>
>> For example, I would like to review a report or be automatically alerted
>> to any IP address using more than an average of 50mbit within the past 24
>> hour plus have the capability to review data say over a month.
>>
>> Any names of software of suggestions would be great which I can
>> investigate, happy to look at both commercial software and open source or
>> if you have a Sflow billing solution for data consumption which is simple
>> and easy to use please let me know
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Tony
>>
>
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