[c-nsp] NetFlow for Bandwidth Billing

[Roland Dobbins]

On May 2, 2007, at 6:36 AM, TCIS List Acct wrote:

> My main concern is to understand the implications of using NetFlow  
> for bandwidth
> billing, and if there are any major reasons "not" to do it this way.

Lots of SPs use NetFlow for this application (as well as for security  
purposes), it works pretty well.  All of the open-source tools  
mentioned handle the asymmetry just fine (that's actually a function  
of NetFlow itself, not the tools, per se).

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