[H-GEN] IP Traffic Stats

[Tim Kent]

Hi James,

> Is there any software available for Debian that is capable of capturing
> statistics for all outgoing traffic through a router ?

I've used 'ipac' (it's a Debian package) and it just creates some 
ipchains/iptables rules that it uses as counters, so I would say that it 
would be fairly inaccurate but gives a ballpark number.  SNMP would 
probably be a better way to go, if you can lock it down properly.

> I'd like things like daily, weekly, monthly stats on the outgoing
> traffic consumed by each machine on the lan.

You could look at something like MRTG or rrdtool here.

> Also while on the topic, is there software to measure the ip traffic
> consumed by users who have shell access to a machine ? Something that
> would also collect any outgoing traffic used by programs such as BitchX,
> eggdrop, bnc etc...

This can be done fairly easily in BSD, but (last time I checked) Linux 
will require some kernel patches.  I've gotten it working before but I 
don't recall the sites I visited.

Cheers,
Tim

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