Hello all, About a year ago I set up a traffic shaping router using debian and cbq.init to allocate measured bandwidth for a group of clients, and used ipac to measure the actual traffic. After a month or two, I found out that the reports generated by ipacsum were grossly inaccurate (up to 6 times as much traffic was reported as existed). As I was unable to find the error, I simply set up a different accounting package (trafstats) on another system, which works fine. I'm now being asked, however, to put trafstats and cbq on one box, and I've reached the tentative hypothesis that the original problem was not due to a bug in ipac, but because traffic *shaping* occurs at the point where packets exit the computer, while traffic *accounting* occurs at the point where packets arrive at the computer -- so trafstats will suffer the same problem. My gut instinct says I'm right, but can anyone here think of an obvious reason why this might be wrong? Cheers, Shad. -- Rens Houben | opinions are mine Resident linux guru and sysadmin | if my employers have one Systemec Internet Services. |they'll tell you themselves PGP public key at http://suzaku.systemec.nl/shadur.key.asc
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