[SLUG] IP Accounting

[Paul Robinson]

Hi all,     I'm helping a friend set up a Linux box for hosting and so I've had to go a little deaper into server configs that I normally would have to. Setting up disk quotas was fun and relatively pain free however I am having trouble with finding software that will count traffic on an ip basis. I found heaps of packages such as ipaccounting that track traffic on an interface level (eg eth0) but I can't find any that will track on an ip address or rather an ip alias level.   The machine has 1 nic and already has 16 ip's assigned to it via ip alias. I thought I might be able to use the :# (where # is 0-15) to get it to recognise the aliased interfaces but it then informed me that it doesn't allow wildcards or aliases. There is some reference in an online man page that you can use ipaddresses but it was being phased out.   Can anyone suggest any software that they know will do the job of tracking traffic on an ip or aliased interface basis (eg eth0:1 etc)?   Thanks in Advance, Paul