[H-GEN] IP Traffic Stats

[David Gwynne]

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From: "Tim Kent" <tim.kent at wkconsulting.com.au>
To: <general at lists.humbug.org.au>
Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2004 8:53 AM
Subject: Re: [H-GEN] IP Traffic Stats


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> 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.

i use something called cacti on a debian box at work to monitor a variety of
things including traffic stats. it sits on top of a variety of other tools,
including snmp and rrdtool and gives you an interface to tie them all
together. takes a bit of time to get your head around, but can give decent
results.

>
> > 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.

how do you do this on bsd?

>
> Cheers,
> Tim
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