Re: bw usage?

["Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick () ianai net>]

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