Accounting is useful?

RouterOS General
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Hello,

I’m using simple queues to limit the amount of traffic per user-day. Every 20 minutes I check if a user has exceeded 100MB of traffic in that interval and then I limit the rate to the half. Then, at 5:00 a.m. I reestablish the queues.

The problem is that Is lose the total amount of traffic of every user. I would like to know, let’s say, the traffic that a user uses in a month. I thought that the solution would be the Accounting in MT but I was surprised when I read that “The maximum setting is 8192 IP pairs.” Just 8192 pairs? 8192 pairs would be used just by a single user if he runs an Ares, isn’t it?

Is there any other mechanism to know the total amount of traffic per user?

Thanks,

Miquel.

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yes. R.A.D.I.U.S.

3

I dont know why they say 8192

becuase you can get way morem try and see

4

Thanks everybody,

I will try to arrive to this limit but the problem is what I wrote, even 80,000 wouldn’t be enough for an user running Ares.

Note for Mikrotik: Wouldn’t it be more useful if You were able to account traffic limiting it with a mask?

About Radius: radius is a good solution depending on what kind of network You are implementing. In this case traffic accounting is just an extra.

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Yes. Real limit is 260000. We do accounting based on this.
Works fine so far.

Stefan

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Thanks, I will try.