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Re: Traffic Accounting



On 21 Jul 2003 at 8:50, Volker Tanger wrote:

> On 19 Jul 2003 23:35:08 +0300 kgb <kgb@kgb.netel.bg> wrote:
> 
> > Which is best way for traffic accounting i use ipac-ng but i don't
> > like it anymore because it make my system under high load.
> 
> If you don't want to mess around with IPtables just to do traffic
> accounting, you could try
> 
>  http://wyae.de/software/trafan/
> 
> which works even from a third machine - just plug in and be happy. I
> do not have any experiences with high load scenarios, though.

Or have you maybe given netacctd a thought? Works fine here - even 
with a constant stream of about 30 MBit on the wire ... sometimes 
even higher.

	http://exorsus.net/projects/net-acct/

It can report traffic in regular intervals and write them to disk. 
Then you can write a separate tool to sum up the information you like 
before writing them to a database.



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