Re: accounting total traffic
Check out MRTG. It's a bit of a challenge to set up, but it's worked for
a ton of sites in the same situation.
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 03:05:25AM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote:
> hey guys, tonight i am bombarding you with questions... sorry.
>
> i need to get a semi-exact idea of the traffic through one of our
> servers, in and out. i understand that netstat -s gives me interface
> statistics, but there are two problems with it:
>
> (a) it lists packets only. as i understand, a packet is not always the
> same size. so that's no big use.
>
> (b) i absolutely need to cope with the disaster case in which the
> server goes down - netstat would loose all data...
>
> there is iptables/ipchains, but (b) still applies. i figure that there
> has to be a way to record these data without going higher up the
> provider hierarchy, right? any ideas? i don't like daily ipchains
> accounting mails and subsequent counter flushes...
>
> martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.)
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