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From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
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Subject: Re: IP accounting
To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco)
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 17:03:38 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: nathan@netrail.net, questions@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org
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> 
> > I have just set up a FreeBSD box as one of my backbone routers and it 
> > works great. I was using linux and it crashed with about 100 routes. But 
> > FreeBSD is working with no load and 30 K routes. 
> > 
> > My only problem is IP accounting I need to know many packets and kbs is 
> > going out of all my interfaces. Is there any software that will do this?
> 
> Look at IP Firewall (options IPFW in your kernel), there is plenty of
> support for that.  :-)  I keep fairly detailed stats myself.

Correct option is:
# IPACCT enables IP accounting.
options         IPACCT                  #ipaccounting

> 
> ... JG
> 


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