[freeside] thinking about using freeside
Ivan Kohler
ivan at sisd.com
Wed Nov 10 13:59:33 PST 1999
On Sun, Oct 31, 1999 at 11:57:18PM +1100, Chris Joyce wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> just a quick question about freeside ,
> I have a very small setup going with only one pop and less then 200 users.
> I also have a second party who use my pop with less then 300 users.
>
> every thing is run on a couple of box's ( one for both of us ) , I use
> ICRADIUS and do all the logging there.I use MSAccess to do my accounting
> via ODBC to MySQL ( logging and radius ) , this only just works !
>
> I'd like to drop the current accounting system , stick with ICRADIUS and
> MySQL but find a better accounting system .
>
> After looking at the site and trying the on-line demo , I have a few
> questions.
>
> I've been trying to work out if freeside will cope with my current
> packages that my clients use.
>
> package A : 1 pop
> 3 mail aliases
> ppp dialup 25 Hours/month with 50 Meg download
> excess charge for extra time/data
>
> package B : 3 pop
> 10 mail aliases
> ppp dialup
> download charged by the Meg
>
> package C : as per package A but with ip filter
>
>
> I gess the real question is can freeside cope with download charging ?
> mixed with hour charging ?
Yes. It will take a little work to glue your usage tracking into
Freeside. See <http://www.sisd.com/freeside/list-archive/msg00423.html>.
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