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From: Kim Jensen <kimj@dawn.dk>
Subject: Re: nat & ip accounting
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 22:51:45 +0100
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To: Rowan Reid <rreid@studio3arc.com>, 'Alexandru Coseru' <alexcos@home.ro>, netfilter@lists.netfilter.org

On Wednesday 26 March 2003 22:11, Rowan Reid wrote:
> I have an answer but you also got me thinking.  A good tool to keep
> track of traffic via ip addresses would be mrtg. However is there an
> mrtg type tool that uses the counters in iptables rules to keep track o=
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> traffic and output it in a user friendly form.

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system is friendly :-) can be hard as you have to define what in what you=
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wish to see things!

mrtg is quite good, since you get the results on a webpage, but for track=
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ip specific things - I don't know, as I don't think the kernel remembers =
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statistic. You can read per interface but not from each ip connecting to =
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interface.

/Kim