[j-nsp] MAC-based accounting

[Blaz Zupan]

> I see that the new GigE QPP PICs can do MAC-based packet/byte
> accounting.  It doesn't look like this functionality is going to be
> built into the FE PICs anytime soon.  Does anyone know how to perform
> tx/rx accounting for traffic coming off a single IP address on shared
> ethernet segment?  Would SCU/DCU be used for this type of accounting?

Put on a firewall filter with the IP address of that host and a "count" rule.
Read the counter from the count rule through SNMP. To make sure that this IP
address is only used by a single IP address, put in a static ARP entry.