Re: IP Traffic accounting on a LAN
Hi,
You may want to check out ntop.
Cheers,
Mike
Quoting Lucas Barbuto <lucas@qk.com.au>:
> Hi List,
>
> I'm hoping somebody here can help me. I've been asked to set up some
> IP based accounting so that internet usage can be tracked on a per-user
> basis at the office. I have three problems here:
>
> 1) We have a firewall performing NAT on all incoming and outgoing
> connections
>
> 2) We have an SMTP/IMAP mail server inside the LAN
>
> 3) We run a web proxy on the firewall
>
> So, does anyone know of any (possibly three seperate tools) that will
> allow me to log the amount of internet traffic per user? So far I've
> looked at the following tools:
>
> 1) IPTraf for monitoring non web and mail traffic, which seems to
> work OK if I filter out all LAN<->LAN traffic and don't show
> connections by the gateway itself
>
> 2) Eximstats for mail, this rates users by the amount of mail they
> send and receive, but it doesn't discriminate between mail sent
> and received locally and externally
>
> 3) Calamaris and Webalizer for analysing Squid logs, unfortunately
> these don't seem to do analysis on a per requesting IP basis
>
> So basically I'd like to know of tools for Exim and Squid that are
> capable of tracking the amount of data that has to be sent and received
> from the internet on a per user or per local IP address basis. I've had
> a look around on Freshmeat and elsewhere but nothing's really jumped out
> at me. Does anyone know of a way of doing this? I'm sure I'm not the
> first person to have had this problem. Any help would be much
> appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> Lucas
>
>
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