Date: Thu, 02 Oct 1997 17:44:21 +0800 From: "Francis Percival C. Favoreal" <dune@skyinet.net> To: Steve Milliner <steve@icis.qut.edu.au>, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: packet counting Message-ID: <34336CF5.DE0900B@skyinet.net> References: <199710020803.SAA03640@russell.icis.qut.edu.au>
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Steve Milliner wrote: > "netstat -bins" gives me basically what I need > (I'm assuming here that I == in & O == out) That's affirmative. > It would be nice to distinguish between mail/http/telnet/etc > traffic though... Well for this one, I can suggest using ipfw with the approriate rules to match the ports, source, and destination of each packet that passes by the server. > - by the way, I don't suppose you know how to re-set the netstat > counters by any chance ? I know there is a way to do this but I cannot seem to remember it now :-) My suggestion is, maybe, these counters can be reset using a command "sysctl" which can manipulate kernel variables that I hope includes the interface counters. However, I do know that in ipfw, you could reset the counters for which again I am not sure wether counters for each rule or all the rules would be zeroed out once a reset is issued. I hope this helps. -- rick
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