From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Mar 6 08:26:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA26867 for ports-outgoing; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 08:26:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from etinc.com (et-gw-fr1.etinc.com [204.141.244.98]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA26845; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 08:25:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-usr11.etinc.com (dialup-usr11.etinc.com [204.141.95.132]) by etinc.com (8.8.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA03642; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 11:33:51 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970306112303.00a12d1c@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 11:23:07 -0500 To: Ron Bickers , Intuitive Design Archive From: dennis Subject: Re: Is there a tool for IP traffic accounting ?? Cc: David Ramahefason , freebsd-ports@freefall.freebsd.org, freebsd-isp@freefall.freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 > > >