From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 17 21:51:21 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC89C16A4CE for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 21:51:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from bigass1.bitblock.com (ns1.bitblock.com [66.199.170.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26F6043D1D for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 21:51:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mitch@bitblock.com) Received: from dc1 ([66.199.170.122]) (AUTH: LOGIN mitch@bitblock.com) by bigass1.bitblock.com with esmtp; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 21:51:16 +0000 X-Abuse-Reports: Visit http://www.bitblock.com/abuse.php X-Abuse-Reports: and submit a copy of the message headers X-Abuse-Reports: or review our policies and procedures X-Abuse-Reports: ID= 41EC3354.00007D33.bigass1.bitblock.com,dns; dc1 ([66.199.170.122]),AUTH: LOGIN mitch@bitblock.com From: "Mitch (Bitblock)" To: "'Andrew Seguin'" , freebsd-net@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 13:51:16 -0800 Organization: Bitblock Systems Inc. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.6353 Thread-Index: AcT80LFoSUWCz4YPSgGiCtgrIeCPngABe3yQAAAREfAAAeSOwA== In-Reply-To: <20050117212803.AC19E54A5@borgtech.ca> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.3790.181 Message-ID: Subject: RE: Network accounting X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 21:51:21 -0000 ---- If I understand this correctly... I'd have to add SNMP to the server and rtg would then poll via SNMP, storing the results in the MySQL server. Seems very good, but I'm a bit hesitant just because I'd like to keep as few software packages as possible running on the firewall. [Mitch says:] you could also use a simple PERL program to parse the output from your ipfw counter list.... Call it on a cron - keep in mind how quick the counters can roll over depending on how fast the interfaces are. m/