From owner-freebsd-hackers  Sat Dec 28 23:22:59 1996
Return-Path: <owner-hackers>
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id XAA17624
          for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 28 Dec 1996 23:22:59 -0800 (PST)
Received: from panda.hilink.com.au (panda.hilink.com.au [203.2.144.5])
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id XAA17619
          for <hackers@freebsd.org>; Sat, 28 Dec 1996 23:22:54 -0800 (PST)
Received: (from danny@localhost) by panda.hilink.com.au (8.7.6/8.7.3) id SAA25381; Sun, 29 Dec 1996 18:32:47 +1100 (EST)
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 18:32:46 +1100 (EST)
From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
To: Joe McGuckin <joe@via.net>
cc: hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: netstats for aliased interfaces?
In-Reply-To: <199612290341.TAA08249@monk.via.net>
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961229183138.15736T-100000@panda.hilink.com.au>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk



On Sat, 28 Dec 1996, Joe McGuckin wrote:

> We run Apache web servers and ftp servers on FreeBSD. How hard would it be
> to modify the kernel to keep seperate octet counts of network devices - with
> aliases ethernet devices broken out by IP?

An alternative would be to use the IPFW accounting and define rules for 
each IP address.  That way you can track bytes/service too.

Danny