ip accounting

ip accounting

[Toholj Vojislav]

Hello all
I heard that there was a discussion about "accounting based on ip address upl/dnl". If 
that's right, could someone send me the whole story?
Thank you

Re: ip accounting

[Thomas Jarosch]

Hello Toholj,

> I heard that there was a discussion about "accounting based on ip address
> upl/dnl". If that's right, could someone send me the whole story?

There are currently four ways to do traffic account:

1. Setup counting rules that do nothing. Readout the counters using
iptables/libiptc. Not a very efficent way if you want to read
out the counters every second, but easy to setup.

"iptables -n  -v -L" for example shows the packet counters.

2. Use the ipt_account match from here:
http://www.barbara.eu.org/~quaker/ipt_account/
(Wasn't there an english version somewhere?)

3. ulog-based traffic accounting:
http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/ulog-acctd

4. Use the high performance ipt_ACCOUNT target from here:
http://www.intra2net.com/opensource/ipt_account/

It's more difficult to setup, but very efficent ;-)

Cheers,
Thomas

Re: ip accounting

[Piotr Gasidło]

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On czw, 20/05, 04:04:46, Thomas Jarosch wrote:
> Hello Toholj,
> 
> > I heard that there was a discussion about "accounting based on ip address
> > upl/dnl". If that's right, could someone send me the whole story?
> 
> There are currently four ways to do traffic account:
> (...)
> 2. Use the ipt_account match from here:
> http://www.barbara.eu.org/~quaker/ipt_account/
> (Wasn't there an english version somewhere?)

Please use ipt_account, 0.2.x tree. It can be found here:
http://www.barbara.eu.org/~quaker/ipt_account2/

English documentation:
http://www.barbara.eu.org/~quaker/ipt_account2/english/mini-howto.txt

ipt_account version 0.2.x will be soon submitted to netfilter cvs,
replacing old one (version 0.1.x).

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IP accounting.

[Carles Xavier Munyoz Baldó]

Hi,
I'm using the iptables to make ip accounting of my HTTP and HTTPS servers.
Is there any file under the /proc directory I could read to obtain the 
counters values instead of using de iptables command ?

Greetings.
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