Re: traffic accounting
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Alexander Reelsen wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 03:16:34PM +0100, Teun Vink wrote:
> > I would like to setup up some sort of traffic accounting in our
> > network. I know how to do this using ipchains rules, but the problem is
> > that our network is completely redundant, so each machine in the network
> > has two gateways (both Debian boxes).
>
> > Does anybody know of a tool which can automatically combine the accounting
> > of multiple routers into one set of statistics?
> Well, if you need graphical accounting you can try to stick with Hoth
> (incidentally written by me ;)). You can stack whatever data you want on
> the top of each other (the example graph on the page stacks tcp with icmp
> with irc, what is completely senseless...), so you can stack the traffic
> of two interfaces as well.
>
> It is based on RRDtool to store the data and the rest is a small perl
> script. See more at:
> http://joker.rhwd.de/software/hoth
>
> Biggest caveat: Not a seamless installation and almost no few docs.
>
> And if someone helps me to read the netlink sockets for accounting in
> Linux 2.4 I will port it as well. I wasn't successful yet in any way,
> neither in perl nor in python (help is really appreciated! :))..
>
>
> MfG/Regards, Alexander
>
>
Well.. I especially need numbers, since we want to bill excessive traffic
:-)
But I be sure to take a look!
Teun
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