From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@gmail.com>
Cc: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: (Ab)using iptables to record byte count per IP?
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:35:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49674499.30705@netfilter.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2d460de70901090327y625afd60g792467e843d3f1d@mail.gmail.com>
Richard Hartmann wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I need to log the traffic each local IP in a NAT'ed network generates
> per day.
>
> Unfortunately, the environment is rather restricted and compiling new
> software is not an option. Thus, I am wondering if I can abuse iptables,
> which is in use anyway, to log for me, as well.
>
> The end result should be a log which contains IP, date and traffic
> generated. I don't really care about the output format as I will perl it
> into the format I need, anyway.
Polling iptables does not look to me a good option. The way to go should
be ulogd2 or or the conntrackd in its simple statistics mode.
--
"Los honestos son inadaptados sociales" -- Les Luthiers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-09 12:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-09 11:27 (Ab)using iptables to record byte count per IP? Richard Hartmann
2009-01-09 11:50 ` Artūras Šlajus
2009-01-09 11:55 ` Thomas Jacob
2009-01-09 12:46 ` Richard Hartmann
2009-01-10 2:55 ` Amos Jeffries
2009-01-09 12:44 ` Richard Hartmann
2009-01-09 17:10 ` Robert Nichols
2009-01-09 12:35 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2009-01-09 12:47 ` Richard Hartmann
2009-01-09 15:23 ` Payam Chychi
2009-01-09 23:27 ` Vlado Drz(ík
2009-01-09 16:36 ` Peter Renzland
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