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Re: bw usage?
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick () ianai net>
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 15:37:05 -0400
At 03:36 PM 7/26/2000 -0500, Paul Froutan wrote: >Depending on which switch you're using, you can also poll the switch for >broadcast and multicast on the port and subtract that from the total so you >don't bill for that.Does anyone actually do this? I thought everyone accounted for all traffic on the port. Of course, the customer ends up paying some extra, but the traffic did go over your network, and if you did not have the equipment, bandwidth, etc., to handle it, the customer's "real" bits would not get through.
This is true even of customers with multiple links to the same provider who talk between machines in their own network over the provider's switch. (Of course, the customer can easily solve that with a tiny bit of clue - and fortunately for most colo providers' bottom lines, most customers do not have even that much clue. :)
>Paul Froutan Email: TTFN, patrick
Current thread:
- bw usage? David M. Ramsey (Jul 26)
- Re: bw usage? Alex (Jul 26)
- Re: bw usage? Jeff Kell (Jul 26)
- Re: bw usage? Paul Froutan (Jul 26)
- Re: bw usage? Patrick W. Gilmore (Jul 29)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: bw usage? Jeremy Brandt (Jul 26)
- Re: bw usage? Dana Hudes (Jul 26)
- Re: bw usage? Alex (Jul 26)