Re: user traffic accounting
Just a quick thought, as it says on the website:
> User Mode Linux virtual machines are networkable,
> to each other, to the host, and to other physical
> machines. So, UML can be used to set up a virtual
> network that allows setting up and testing of
> experimental services.
http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/
Maybe this allows accounting of the vm's, too.
I remember a project here where BSD was used in
a similar way and every virtual machine had it's
own IP.
Cheers,
Marcel
martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net> 7 Jan 2002, at 14:26:
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> hi folks,
> please direct me to some documentation on ways to account
> for user traffic on a single machine, acting as BIND9,
> apache, postfix, and sshd server for a number of users. i
> need to get as close as possible to exact traffic volume
> measurements to do proper billing, and (unfortunately), i
> can't use an upstream router for that.
>
> i want to account for total traffic, which includes the
> following challenges:
>
> - Shell: every user has ssh access. i need to be able to
> keep track
> of every byte coming in and out of sshd, but also any
> data sent to or received from the internet while using
> the shell account.
> - HTTP: a user has zero or more domains hosted on the
> system, all
> request and response volume should be added to that
> users accounting data.
> - Mail: any mail that the user receives should be
> byte-counted. the
> same applies to mail sent from the user account via
> sendmail, mail sent via port 25, and mail relayed (TLS
> client authentication).
> - BIND: c.f. with HTTP, basically the same applies.
> =20
> if you ask me, this sounds like a horrible task. any tips
> from the ISP experts?
>
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