that is a lot of work I was hoping for a small windows app
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> tucows. not really but i'll give it a try..thanks.
>
>
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> Subject: RE: [CFTALKTor] OT - Network traffic
> Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 15:28:50 -0500
>
> No, unfortunately I don't, I always get what I need out of the man pages
> (which comes with the install).
>
> Here is a snippet of a relevant part of the man pages for ipchains:
>         Accounting  rules are now simply integrated into the input
>         and output chains; you can simulate the old behaviour like
>         so:
>          ipchains -N acctin
>          ipchains -N acctout
>          ipchains -N acctio
>          ipchains -I input -j acctio
>          ipchains -I input -j acctin
>          ipchains -I output -j acctio
>          ipchains -I output -j acctout
>         This  creates  three  user-defined chains, acctin, acctout
>         and acctio, which are  to  contain  any  accounting  rules
>         (these  rules  should  be  specified without a -j flag, so
>         that the packets simply pass through them unscathed).
>
> This doc outlines local traffic accounting.  You would need to put the NIC
> into permiscuous mode so it accepts all packets, and then do your rules:
> if source = LAN and dest = LAN then
>    ignore
> else
>    add packet to bandwidth counter
> endif
>
> ie
> ipchains -N isptraffic
> ipchains -N localtraffic
> ipchains -I input -s 10.0.0.0/16 -d 10.0.0.0/16 -j localtraffic
> ipchains -I input -s !10.0.0.0/16 -j isptraffic
> ipchains -I input -d !10.0.0.0/16 -j isptraffic
>
> In retrospect, if you are not familiar with linux tcp/ip routing
principles,
> this may be a lot of work just to do some network accounting.  Perhaps
there
> are prefab apps that run on windows, have you tried tucows?
>
> Terry Fielder
> Network Engineer
> Great Gulf Homes / Ashton Woods Homes
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>  > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
>  > Behalf Of Joseph Salimbangon
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>  >
>  >
>  > Hi Terry,
>  >
>  > do u have a link for linux router configuration?
>  >
>  > thanks..
>  >
>  > joe
>  >
>  >
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>  > Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 13:52:30 -0500
>  >
>  > If you any old PC you can throw linux onto, linux has built
>  > into the kernel
>  > (ipchains) the ability to monitor bandwidth in a couple of
>  > different ways.
>  > As long as it is on a broadcast LAN, it can be set count
>  > packets/bytes for
>  > frames destined for outside your LAN, or coming in from
>  > outside your LAN.
>  > This means you will need a spare port on your linksys, or
>  > piggyback your a
>  > hub onto your linksys.
>  >
>  >
>  > Terry Fielder
>  > Network Engineer
>  > Great Gulf Homes / Ashton Woods Homes
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>  >
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>  >    From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Mike
>     Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 1:42 PM
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>     Subject: [CFTALKTor] OT - Network traffic
>
>
>     Hi All,
>
>     Sorry to post off topic, but I was wondering if anyone on the list
know
> of
> any way of metering the amount of traffic we use from our ISP.  We are
> shopping for a DSL connection but we haven't got a clue how much we have.
> We are presently using a small linksys router to share our present
> connection.
>
>     If anyone has a suggestion I appreciate it.
>
>     Please reply off list.
>
>     Thanks
>
>     Mickael
>
>
>
>
> Joseph Salimbangon
>
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