From: Michael Nguyen <iptables@twentyten.org>
To: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: iptables for bandwidth tracking
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:46:21 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B44078D.4000103@twentyten.org> (raw)
Hey guys,
Our servers are in a managed hosting solution where we do not have
access to our switch. We have a lot of users that use our VPN solution
and I'd like to better track their bandwidth usage. I'm considering two
options for this:
- Using one of the many libpcap daemons to monitor and record traffic
patterns
- Use iptables
Each VPN node has the possibility of 64,000 IP addresses so if I used
iptables, I'd need to create iptables rules for each of those IP
addresses. That seems silly to me, but am I better off doing that than
running a daemon that at the end of the day will basically do the same
thing? Thanks in advance.
Michael
next reply other threads:[~2010-01-06 3:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-06 3:46 Michael Nguyen [this message]
2010-01-06 12:13 ` iptables for bandwidth tracking John Haxby
2010-01-06 13:34 ` Mart Frauenlob
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