[committee] FW: AARNet Charges for Mar 11

[Matt Didcoe]

As I've said on IRC just now, I think it would be good idea to have
the traffic count emails, mainly to ensure we are keeping in line with
our agreement with the vice-chancellor not to go bananas and take
advantage of the centrally funded connection (not that its stopping
staff and students alike across campus doing it :P).

[AHC] has suggested purchasing a TP-Link TR-1043ND wireless router
that supports 802.11n and can do traffic counting for the wireless. It
sounds like an excellent solution for what we'd like to achieve ([DAA]
seems happy with it as well).

- Matt [MRD]

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 1:57 PM, David Adam <zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
>> UWA Network Traffic Charges Report.
>>
>> Mar 11      Charge period to 31.03.2011
>>
>> Name of Unit: University Computer Club        Contact:
>>
>>                 Service or            Dial                     ITS
>> Host            Username        Type  Time    LAN     Cache    Host   Total
>> 130.95.13.142   wireless-snat.uc      0.00  662.22    0.00    0.00   662.22
>> 130.95.13.147   vpn-snat.ucc.gu.      0.00  115.23    0.00    0.00   115.23
>>
>>                 Total                 0.00 1683.78    0.00    0.00  1683.78
>
> I understand there is some consternation over these costs even though we
> are not paying them directly.
>
> Currently all VPN traffic is accounted for by the RADIUS server, and
> there is a script to process these logs and produce simple output.
>
> mussel:/var/log/freeradius/radacct/130.95.13.3# cat detail-201103* | python process.py
>       Username    Down (MB)    Up (MB)
>           cssc:        238          5
>          maset:          0          0
> (etc.)
>
> Would monthly emails to committee-only be helpful?
>
> The wireless traffic is not accounted because of the limitations of the
> current access point; perhaps it is time to upgrade our AP to a .11n
> implementation with something that support RADIUS accounting (e.g.
> anything that runs hostapd, Cisco Aironet gear, etc.)
>
> David Adam
> UCC Wheel Member
>
>
>