Re: Internet usage for customers spanning data centers

Second port on each side for Layer 2 traffic?

Jeff

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Rick Kunkel <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello folks,
>
> It's been a long while since I've asked anything on here...
>
> I've been dodging this issue for quite some time, but it's time to address
> it.  I have a couple of data centers.  Customer X has always had equipment
> in only one of these data centers, and getting usage data for him has always
> been pretty easy using SNMP.  Now though, he wants to have equipment in both
> data centers,and he plans to send a lot of replication data back and forth
> between the two data centers.  We only bill for bandwidth to the outside
> world.
>
> How do others handle billing/usage in this situation?  I want to make sure
> that I'm charging him only for traffic that leaves our network.  My old
> method, gathering SNMP data on his switchport, will now include traffic
> destined for his machines in the other data center, and will therefore not
> work.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Rick
> --
> Eat sushi frequently. - Avi
> [email protected] is the human contact address.
> [email protected] is the list posting address.
> See below URL for subscribe/unsubscribe and list options:
> http://inet-access.net/**mailman/listinfo/list<http://inet-access.net/mailman/listinfo/list>
>

-- 
Eat sushi frequently. - Avi
[email protected] is the human contact address.
[email protected] is the list posting address.
See below URL for subscribe/unsubscribe and list options:
http://inet-access.net/mailman/listinfo/list