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kmullen
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Traffic Accounting

Wed Mar 02, 2005 6:03 am

Please help. I need to keep monthly reports, accessible to customers of their traffic throughput. I have the IP accounting program running. I need to use the log downloader. But I keep getting an error when I try to download the log file.

Accounting is running, my webport is 8083. I have been messing with this for two months and I still can't get it.
 
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Thu Mar 03, 2005 9:19 pm

You haven't given any details of the error you're getting.

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No details

Mon Mar 07, 2005 3:24 am

There aren't any details on the log downloader program. It just says error.
 
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Wed Mar 09, 2005 3:22 am

/ip accounting snapshot take

issue this command a coupla times and also set the log downloading to happen every minute if the number of sessions flowing through your MT is pretty high.
 
kraftwurx

Wed Mar 09, 2005 3:34 am

If you rely on this to make money, you owe it to yourself to use a RADIUS server. The following setup works well:


RADIUS for client auth. and accounting

RADIUS dumps data to a db (like MySQL)

make a simple webpage in, say, php which will retrieve the accounting data once the client has logged in. You can even add a "change your password" option and other goodies.


It mostly depends on how you are authorizing your clients now. Hotspot, PPPoE, VPN ? This should work well and afford you a lot of room to grow and add services.
 
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RADIUS

Sun Mar 13, 2005 5:46 am

Yes I agree with your conclusions about the Radius server. I have installed Freeradius but the configuration is beyond my expertise.

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