I have set up mod_throttle to monitor and manage bandwidth on our users accounts. I was hoping it would monitor all the traffic, specifically traffic generated by SHOUTcast servers on our RaQ4i. However, it doesnt. Does anyone have any ideas on how this can be done? Im not quite sure why mod_throttle isnt monitoring the traffic sent by the shoutcast servers? Is there any other program I can use to do this?

I don't have any ideas for you on controlling Shoutcast bandwidth for individual users, but mod_throttle is an Apache module. It can only control content that is served by Apache. It would affect multimedia content being served through Apache, but not a seperate server program.

-joe

edit: removed a typo

True, I should have realized that myself. Still searching for a solutions...

http://www.palisadesys.com/packetpup/

That MAY work for you.

Originally posted by Haze
I have set up mod_throttle to monitor and manage bandwidth on our users accounts. I was hoping it would monitor all the traffic, specifically traffic generated by SHOUTcast servers on our RaQ4i. However, it doesnt. Does anyone have any ideas on how this can be done? Im not quite sure why mod_throttle isnt monitoring the traffic sent by the shoutcast servers? Is there any other program I can use to do this?

Is those ShoutCast servers operating on their own IP address?

If yes, then you can actually monitor the bandwidth quite easily. Simply use ipfwadm/ipchains to setup accounting rules for the ip-addresses, and use some (perl)-scripts to save the accounting stats to disk every once in a while, and a script to summarize the data for you.

(if you do not want to program or have programmed those scripts, we did a complete package sometime ago with everything collected in one package)

The software mentioned above wont help, due to its requirements, and the shoutcasts are hosted on 1 ip, so that won't help either.

I never thought It would be this hard to figure this out.. GERRR!

Originally posted by Haze
The software mentioned above wont help, due to its requirements, and the shoutcasts are hosted on 1 ip, so that won't help either.

I never thought It would be this hard to figure this out.. GERRR!

Okay, you have several shoutcast streams running on one IP, that you must do accouting for one by one?

Do you have no possiblity of getting extra IP's?

If not, then you have to do a program that reads and summarizes the logfiles from your shoutcast program - simple as that :-)