Re: bean counters
On Sat, 11 Mar 100, Allen Ahoffman wrote:
> Hi:
> Is there anyone outthere selling a Debian based box that will:
> allow complete real time ip stats for several inside hosts.
> e.g.
> one linux box where all the data goes thru and it presents me with
> incoming and outgoing traffic use by bytes for each ip?
> I don't want it to filter packets, reroute packets, or anything, just
> count everything.
>
> rate control would be nice but can cause problems.
> Any suggestions for whichpackages to set up or is there a consulting bunch
> recommended to sell a box for this purpose.
>
>
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I and a friend have written a little kernel patch for Linux that allows
exactly that. It's basically intended for boxes running as routers, and
can log traffic at about 30MB/sec on a PII-350. It also includes a daemon
which pulls data from the kernel at a speficied rate and pushes that to an
SQL server. All code is GPL, but it's officially not released yet, we've
been a bit lazy.. :)
If you're interested in trying this just let me know..
/Roger
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Roger Abrahamsson
Senior System/Network Administrator
Obbit Skynet AB
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