Hi, there are a 3 ways (or better .. I know only 3 ways:) to do this:
1.) Set up a ipchains/iptables Rule which counts the traffic (simply create a rule which cover the whole traffic like iptables -A INPUT -j ACCEPT iptables -A FORWARD -j ACCEPT iptables -A OUTPUT -j ACCEPT with iptables -L CHAINNAME -v -x you can read the byte counters out .. just write a script (or use some prebuild from the net) wich reads those output With this solution you have also the option to track down the Traffic per Service (e.g. per port) 2.) Use a switch with SNMP (and MRTG to visualize the traffic per Switchport) by the way you can also use MRTG to visualize the read values from the solution above 3.) Use a SNMP Daemon on the machine itself .. and MRTG to monitor it .. If you take the first solution have a look on the Netfilter Mailinglist archives (links etc can be found on www.netfilter.org where this problem is discussed a few times) If you take any other solution this link might be helpfull: www.mrtg.org Hope this helps, Stefan Siefert -----Ursprungliche Nachricht----- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Im Auftrag von Jefferson Cowart Gesendet: Samstag, 27. April 2002 06:02 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Bandwidth usage Is there anyway to track bandwidth usage? It would be great if I could get a break down per IP, but failing that just a simple counter of bandwidth used would be the next best. The simple ifconfig doesn't appear to show that bandwidth utilization; I'm assuming that it only counts packets in user space and forwarded packets never enter user space. Sorry if this has already been answered on the list but I was unable to find it in the archives. TIA ---------------- Thanks Jefferson Cowart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Support Open Instant Messaging Protocols http://www.petitiononline.com/openIM/petition.html
