Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 11:23:07 -0500 From: dennis <dennis@etinc.com> To: Ron Bickers <rbickers@intercenter.net>, Intuitive Design Archive <archive@in-design.com> Cc: David Ramahefason <rama@easynet.fr>, freebsd-ports@freefall.freebsd.org, freebsd-isp@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is there a tool for IP traffic accounting ?? Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970306112303.00a12d1c@etinc.com>
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At 09:48 AM 3/6/97 -0500, Ron Bickers wrote: >On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Intuitive Design Archive wrote: > >> > I'm looking for a tool to count the IP traffic from one IP to the rest of >> > the world.... >> > Is ipfw the only way ? >> > >> > Thanks for answering >> >> How about a IP counter for aliases? >> >> How do people generally do megabyte accounting for >> virtual websites? > >It may not be the best solution, but I've been running nnstat with a >simple config that sums up the bytes to/from the given IP address into >each customers "bucket". A perl script gathers the info from it's log. >It's been running unmodified without problems for 2 years now. > >nnstat makes use of the fact that ethernet is broadcast (it's pretty much >a sniffer) so the machine must be located where all the traffic will pass. > >--- >Ron > > >
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