[c-nsp] NetFlow for Bandwidth Billing

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Bill Nash wrote:
> Sounds like you're in the 'small' scale, with some room to grow for 
> 'medium'. 
> 
> Check out:
> http://www.networkuptime.com/tools/netflow/
> 
> If you're talking billing, you're probably interested in 95th percentile. 
> Flavio will do that out of the box, but I don't like the front end. Stager 
> is hackable as hell. I've used softflowd for all kinds of things, even as 
> a stand-in for tcpdump. Your requirements will obviously vary from mine, 
> but that's at least a start.
> 
> - billn

At the moment, we primarily bill based on total GB used in a given time period. 
  We do have some customers interested in 95th percentile as well, so the 
flexibility to do it that way would be nice.

--Mike