Author: Ryan Masse
Date: 19-12-01 18:50
Back to your first question; Daniel pretty much hit the nail on the spot. An alternative to his response would be to acquire a managed switch with has the capability to filter traffic, bind ports and bind IP addresses based on MAC addresses and/or ports. For example you give x client a 10/100 local connection to port 9 on the managed switch. You would then logon to the switch and configure the device to bind publicipaddy1 to port 9 etc. The Cisco Catalyst line of switches with the latest IOS have these capabilities.
Getting to your second question, there is a package called IPMeter which does a bang up job in graphing, accounting, and billing based on traffic usage. It’s a pain to get installed but once it is, it will surpass any tool on the market including MRTG (nothing against MRTG).
Ryan
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