[lug] Web bandwidth accounting sw

[Dan Ferris]

karl horlen wrote:
> If a webserver is going to be shared by a number of
> different sites with different owners, can anybody
> recommend open source software that allows you to keep
> track of the amount of bandwidth each uses?
>
> Preferably it would:
>
> 1) allow you to set account limits
> 2) have triggers that automatically notify you when a
> limit has been reached
> 3) keep track of daily weekly monthly amounts
> 4) keep track of bursts/peaks
>
>   
Not sure about all of that, I think you might need some flow monitoring 
software.

> And i'm not sure if this is possible but:
>
> 5) allocate percentages of the entire bandwidth pipe
> to individual sites so that if all the bandwidth is
> being used, one site could be guaranteed 50% of the
> pipe and the other 10 would divide the rest (or some
> other sharing scheme)
>   

Very doable.  Take a look at the Linux advanced routing and traffic 
control HOWTO.  What you want is called Classed based queueing.  The 
utility to control all of that stuff is called tc.
> thanks
>
>
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