On Thu, May 22, 1997 at 06:59:50AM +0200, Benedikt Eric Heinen wrote: > > Is there an IP-Accounting HOWTO available anywhere? (Or is there anyone > who could supply a couple of good tips). > > So far, I've managed to set rules for the IP accounting via ipfwadm (and > the kernel has IP-Accounting support), but *where* do I retrieve the > accounting information -- I haven't seen anything hinting towards that?
They're in /proc/net/ip_acct; you might be able to get ipfwadm to give you them in a nicer format. I just wrote a perl script to clean it up, summarize and mail it out daily. But nothing generic, it depends on the order of the items in the ip_acct file, etc. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering. 3rd year, RMIT. http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~moffatt (PGP key here) CPOM: [**** ] 46% The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. --Bohr -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
