Re: How to account traffic in IPTABLES?

[Stephane Ouellette <ouellettes@videotron.ca>]

Bobo wrote:

> HI
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>      I use the iptables + squid as the gateway of one LAN,and it is very good in fact.
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>   Now,I would like to get the traffic accounting of each IP of the LAN.
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>  How to get these data ? Does IPtables contain these data?
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try this one:

iptables -nvL INPUT

>  Are there some tools for traffic accounting of iptables?
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The iptables command itself !!!

>  I could use perl and shell programing.Could I analyze the log file of iptables to account?
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in Perl:

open(CHAINS, "iptables -nvL INPUT|") or die "Error reading chains\n";

while(<CHAINS>)
{
# read the lines one by one, matching on the text you want
}

close(CHAINS);

>  Thanks
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