Re: nat & ip accounting

[Bjorn Ruberg <bjorn@ruberg.no>]

On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 22:01, Kim Jensen wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 March 2003 20:32, Alexandru Coseru wrote:
> > Hello..
> >
> > I want to see using iptables -L -v  the ammount of traffic generated by
> > each of my LAN's IP..
> >
> > i have masq 192.168.0.2  to 192.168.0.50...
> >
> > and now i want to see the traffic generated by 192.168.0.4 since the last
> > reset of counters..
> >
> > How can I do that ?  I want to be able to see the download and the upload
> > ...
> >
> ifconfig

ifconfig is the worst alternative, because it regularly resets its
counters.

As Rowan suggested, use MRTG [1] or some other tool (RRDtool [2],
perhaps? :) to read the statistics.

You may use MRTG with an SNMP daemon on your system or with an iptables
extract script [3].

Hope this helps;

Bjørn

[1] http://www.mrtg.org/
[2] http://www.rrdtool.org/
[3] http://www.norris160.org/cisco/MRTG_Monitor_Software.htm