IP Accounting

[toddba]

Hey Guys,

We have been using the IP Accounting feature in our main Star-OS box to keep track of our customers BW usage. All seems to work well.

Unfortunately we have a huge discrepency between what our IP accounting is telling us and what our ISP's numbers are. Almost off by 2x.

Does the ip acounting built into Star-OS monitor all protocols or only TCP?

I have been trying to track down the source of this missing BW without success. Any suggestions would be welcome.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Todd Barber
Skylink Broadband Internet

[tony]

IP accounting tracks IP-based traffic such as ICMP, UDP and TCP.

Thanks!

[toddba]

Thanks for the info Tony.

We are now wondering about VPN traffic. I am by no means an expert on this. Could some type of VPN traffic be passed without being recorded by the IP Accounting?

[tony]

Anything that rides on the IP protocol will be recorded, including VPN (since it has a source & destination IP address). An example of some things that will not be recorded include IPX and IPV6.

Thanks!