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Re: Identify amount of traffic to special IP address in Radius

  • From: Joe Shen
  • Date: Wed Mar 01 00:04:25 2006
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> why in the world  
> would you want to do something like that rather than
> have another  
> device generate flow records which you then can
> correlate with RADIUS  
> accounting data?
> 

The reason is the cost of system building. As there
are a lot of broadband subscribers, if we want to
corelate subscriber with web site they visit we have
to make Radius allocate a fixed IP to a special
subscriber. Netflow based accounting is costy and we
could not guarantee its accuracy. 

In fact, we only need to identify a small set of IPs
which should not be considered in accounting.

Joe


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