Re: Traffic Accounting

["Volker Tanger" <volker.tanger@discon.de>]

Greetings!

On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 10:20:05 +0200 Thomas Lamy <Thomas.Lamy@netwake.de>
wrote:

> Don't use it. I've been through many open source and self-made IP
> accounting tools, and using tcpdump is not what one would like. It
> gets really messy on high throughput.

"Messy" as in higher load than IPtables or as in packet drops - or how?
Can you hint me at some ressources (URLs) on this?

Thanks a lot for your input

Volker Tanger


PS: TrafAn was a quick-shot designed to give a rough estimate on
    intra-network protocol usage e.g. plugged into a SPAN-port of 
    a switch.
    So using it for accounting is more a by-product...