[H-GEN] IP Traffic Stats

Tim Kent tim.kent at wkconsulting.com.au
Fri Jun 4 19:55:42 EDT 2004


David Gwynne wrote:

>>>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?

FreeBSD in particular using ipfw has the 'uid' matching option you can 
use to count the data.

Cheers,
Tim

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