From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steven M Campbell Subject: Re: Iptables logs on High bandwidth traffic network Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 13:18:23 -0400 Message-ID: <427903DF.5030707@SCampbell.net> References: <4278C3DE.7010403@au-kbc.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4278C3DE.7010403@au-kbc.org> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: netfilter-bounces@lists.netfilter.org Errors-To: netfilter-bounces@lists.netfilter.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: iptables bharathi wrote: >Hi all, > I am planning to implement iptables log feature on a server >machine(Dual xeon processor,Intel e100 cards,80GB SCSI and 2GB RAM) >which is running in bridge mode (On RH 7.3).The average traffic on this >machine is vary from 40-60Mbps.Hence I require some suggestion for some >my questions like, > >1) On this High traffic the kernel will be stable/crash ? >2) What would be the CPU Load and the server is able to do this job >without any pain ? >3) Up to how much traffic the iptables/kernel can able to handle without >any issue and what should I do additionally if I need the > iptable-log should handle this much traffic? > > >Advance thanks for your suggestion and pointers. > >bharthix. > > > Along with other advice offered, you may wish to take a look at argus and ntop which are packages that collect nice summary information from ethernet traffic. They may be appropos to your goal.