byte level logging?

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Hi,

Grahame Jordan wrote:
> I am using mgetty for an ISP. A requirement is to be able to log the
> byte usage per connection. ie. to be able to get to byte usage per
> customer and even to limit them to a certain limit.
> I have not been able to find any package that can do this for me apart
> from RAS.  There are probably a few hacks I could do to login or
> something but I believe that this function is best suited to mgetty.
> 
> Is there any plan/though/musings about this??

This is not *at all* suited to be done in mgetty.  While the user is
online, there is no mgetty process running.

Depending on whether you want to do PPP logins or tty based logins (you
didn't tell us!), you can do that with "ip accounting" or you might try to
hack "ttysnoop" into counting bytes.

gert

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