racount

[Peter Van Epp]

> 
> Hey Peter!
>    Loud and clear on the non-IP traffic counts!  That is
> easy to do, and will be in 2.0.
> 
>    I have to admit, I know nothing of perl, so the analogy
> is going to bounce off.  But if its any consolation, we do
> have the building blocks of your racount() description in
> the vault, so it won't take long to write it (we could have
> it out long before 2.0).
> 
>    Now, it seems that there are many variants that could
> be supported, but I have an idea that may satisfy.
> Your description sounds like an aggregator and then a count
> reporter.  How about doing the aggregation in a separate
> routine, and piping its output into racount().  That would
> give us the flexibility to aggregate in a number of ways, based
> on subnet address for the source and no source port number, etc ...
> and then have a counter report generator work off of the
> aggregation output.
> 
>    Does that sound useful?
> 
> Carter

	Yep, that sounds like just what the doctor ordered. Perl's great charm
is the speed with which you can change things to suit yourself, and it sounds
like this would achieve that goal.

Peter Van Epp / Operations and Technical Support 
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada