Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 14:36:29 +0300 From: "Nickolay Kritsky" <Nickolay.Kritsky@astra-sw.com> To: "Andrew Seguin" <asegu@borgtech.ca>, <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Network accounting Message-ID: <D86BF562467D944EB435513F725B236A07C0F3@exchange.stardevelopers4msi.com>
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I am using trafd and I am quite happy with it, if I dump internal tables = to disk often enough. Nick -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Seguin [mailto:asegu@borgtech.ca] Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 11:11 PM To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Network accounting I=92ve searched Google, I=92ve searched through the FreeBSD-net archives = and have gotten a few leads to what I=92m seeking, but unfortunately, = nothing solid enough for me to go off of (so yes, I=92ve been doing some = homework first! ;) ) =20 But, here=92s my situation. A dedicated FreeBSD transparent = firewall-bridge with 3 NICs (two for the bridge w/o IP, one for console). I=92m using = IPFW for the firewall, and at the moment I=92m doing some very bare-bones = statistics via a couple of count rules. I track abusive users through random usage = of TCPDump (when I feel like it basically). =20 However, I have some heavy downloader=92s on the campus so I want to do = deep statistics gathering. Mainly, how much is (daily/weekly/monthly) the = traffic by IP address and independently the traffic by service (HTTP/SMTP). =20 So my research seems to indicate that the best is to use something to generate netflow data (Maybe IPCad?). However, I sort of feel that=92s a = bit heavy for my needs, I=92d have only one source of data collection. But = it=92s not like I=92m tight in processor power nor hard disk space and I even = have a second server already running web/Mysql under my control. I have a small list of tools, but it all leads up to my question. =20 I therefore ask out to the list, what recommendations for traffic accounting/statistics gathering can you give me? --=20 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.6.13 - Release Date: 1/16/2005 =20 _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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