Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 17:54:27 -0400 (EDT) From: user <user@dhp.com> To: "Andrew P." <infofarmer@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: traffic accounting per username with ipfw in 5.4 ? (more) Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0510241745090.8180-100000@shell.dhp.com> In-Reply-To: <cb5206420510241435j71703866qa6d1ec60ba72fd64@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello, On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Andrew P. wrote: > On 10/25/05, user <user@dhp.com> wrote: > > > > I remember that ipfw had been augmented some time ago to do traffic > > counting, etc., based on usernames ... but I see no mention of that in the > > ipfw man page on my 5.4-RELEASE system. > > > > Is this something that only exists in IPFW2 ? Does ipfw2 even exist > > anymore ? > > > > Can someone clarify for me what is going on with regard to what used to be > > called IPFW2, FreeBSD 5.x, and per-user traffic counting ? > > > > thanks. > > ipfw2 replaced ipfw in 5.x > > Read the manpage more carefully, please. Search > for "uid" option. Thanks - I was searching for username and getting nowhere. Also, thank you for the clarification regarding ipfw2/ipfw and their current state. I notice that the traffic accounting per uid only applies to traffic initiated by that user, and initiated from the local machine. If I scp a file away from the machine (as user X) the traffic does not get incremented, and if I scp a file to the local machine (as user X) it also does not get incremented - even though those are non-anonymous actions that occur under the auspices of a particular username. Doe anyone have any suggestions for traffic accounting (of particularly ssh traffic) on a per user basis, for _all_ traffic that occurs under the auspices of that username, and not just what _they themselves_ initiate, personally, in their own login shell ? Thank you.
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