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From: Tim Priebe <tim@polytechnic.edu.na>
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To: Chris Cook <ccook@tcworks.net>
Cc: Nick Evans <nevans@nextvenue.com>, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Monitoring Network Traffic
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If all of the data passes through a FreeBSD box, set up a firewall rule
for each IP address, and feed the byte count for each rule into MRTG or
what ever.

Tim.

Chris Cook wrote:
> 
> I currently have MRTG in place but I was wanting to know if there was
> someway to record say... which ip addresses get the most traffic..
> Thanks!
> 
> > Nick Evans wrote:
> >
> > MRTG
> >
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chris Cook [mailto:ccook@tcworks.net]
> > Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 3:46 PM
> > To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
> > Subject: Monitoring Network Traffic
> >
> > Hello all,
> >         I was wondering if anyone had some good suggestions on
> > software that
> > would allow us to monitor where the majority of our backbone traffic
> > is
> > being used.  We have a cisco border router and FreeBSD servers... is
> > there some port or package that will help?  Thanks in advance!
> >
> 
> --
> Chris
> 
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