From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 6 13:44:45 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E969A16A41F for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2005 13:44:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: from sigma.octantis.com.au (ns2.octantis.com.au [207.44.189.124]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D6C143D48 for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2005 13:44:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: (qmail 21290 invoked from network); 6 Sep 2005 23:44:44 +1000 Received: from 203-173-33-12.dyn.iinet.net.au (HELO ?192.168.13.3?) (203.173.33.12) by sigma.octantis.com.au with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 6 Sep 2005 23:44:44 +1000 Message-ID: <431D9D48.4010507@meijome.net> Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 23:44:40 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Grant Peel References: <007201c5b2e2$248a17b0$6501a8c0@GRANT> In-Reply-To: <007201c5b2e2$248a17b0$6501a8c0@GRANT> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPFW counters. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 13:44:46 -0000 Grant Peel wrote: > Hi all, > Hi Grant, > I am in the midst of setting up bandwidth monitoring for all my domains > and IPs. To do this I will be using IPFW counter rules and ipa. > > Question: I have about 250 domains on each box. I assume you mean are hosting 250 websites for 250 different domains in each box. > to monitor all of them, > I would need to set up over 500 counter rules, how well will ipfw and > freebsd 4.10 and up) handle this? are you actually using 250 IP address per box? (does seem a bit of a waste), unless they are 250 jails. Or maybe ipfw understands layer 7 now, and I missed that release :)... (just curious on how you are setting this up if you only have a few IPs) Cheers, Beto