From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jul 25 8:58: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB0A637B400 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 08:58:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from notus.primus.ca (mail.tor.primus.ca [216.254.136.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 469C143E84 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 08:58:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from leth@primus.ca) Received: from dialin-134-233.hamilton.primus.ca ([209.90.134.233]) by notus.primus.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #16) id 17Xl07-00039l-0A for freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 11:58:03 -0400 Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 11:57:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Jason Hunt X-X-Sender: leth@lethargic.dyndns.org To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Software for IP accounting? In-Reply-To: <1027602330.3d3ff79a18bd6@webmail.emre.de> Message-ID: <20020725115607.L18127-100000@lethargic.dyndns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Emre Bastuz wrote: > Hi, > > I was just wondering what software might be used for doing IP based accounting > in an existing network. > > We´ve been playing around with Cisco´s netflow but somehow it does not scale. > > Is there any other tool, hopefully FreeBSD based, that can be installed on a > performant box to be put into a segment for sniffing and accounting traffic ? > > Something doing more than 100mb would be great. > > What do _you_ guys use for accounting purposes? > Look at ipfw(8). It keeps counters on each rule (packets and bandwidth). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message