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Re: Traffic monitoring



also sprach Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder <avbidder@fortytwo.ch> [2003.03.15.0135 +0100]:
> Hmmm. As long as you have specific protocols, you could always parse the
> server logs. ftp and http should be no problem, most daemons write a
> sensible log, I guess. Others (especially IMAP) I don't know. SSH
> probably doesn't write such a log.

this will only be a rough estimate since it counts layer 7 traffic.
for each TCP packet, you can add 44 bytes, and for each UDP packet
another 28.

if you need to do traffic accounting sensibly, there is no way
around using separate IPs and/or an actual accounting device.

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