How does Telkom determine international usage

[hartz]

Hi,

My question is in terms of the "cap" on international bandwidth usage - how does Telkom account a specific user's International usage? The question implies two things: That Telkom knows which packets will leave the country or else when they leave the country, who they belong to, and secondly that this data is collected and aggregated somehow...?

Then, once a specific user has reached their relevant cap, where does the "rerouting" or "blocking" take place?

Thanx,
_Hartz

 

[Moederloos]

they do not. They now hard cap (local and intl) and in the past, they counted all usage as the same thing.
Once you reached your "cap" (in the past), you were logged onto a radius server that did not allow international.

 

[Turbo_Aspiration]

I guess telkom adds up the data going thru your vc interface at the exchange (would be interesting to find anything official on this) [edit: looks like this info is kept on the radius server and accessed/updated when u connect/disconnect]. In the old days of unlimted local, u were put on another ip range... my guess is that this range is blocked off from the routers at the edge of the local could

EDIT: check this out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RADIUS