From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Aug 21 7:59:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from etinc.com (et-gw.etinc.com [207.252.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3036537B42C for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 07:59:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dbsys (dbsys.etinc.com [207.252.1.18]) by etinc.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA14440; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 11:02:50 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200008211502.LAA14440@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 11:14:36 -0400 To: tim@iafrica.com.na, Chris Cook From: Dennis Subject: Re: Monitoring Network Traffic Cc: Nick Evans , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <39A00571.F4CE407@polytechnic.edu.na> References: <712384017032D411AD7B0001023D799B33B2BF@sn1exchmbx.nextvenue.com> <399DAF96.30129A@tcworks.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 05:21 PM 8/20/00 +0100, Tim Priebe wrote: >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. We have a commercial product that can do this along with rate-limiting in an integrated environment with an HTML interface. MRTG can be a real dog when monitoring hundreds of addresses as such. New "stats-only" rules allow you to gather stats on multiple occurances of the same packet, for example if you were gathering stats for: 1) www traffic for all ips 2) tcp traffic for ip 1.2.3.4 3) all traffic for ip 1.2.3.4 info at www.etinc.com DB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message