Re: [LARTC] Re: Bandwidth Metering

[Patrick Coleman <blinken@gmail.com>]

I ran across one called culprit
(http://freshmeat.net/projects/culprit.pl/), which does kinda what I
want. However, by the looks of things it doesnt look like its going to
be easy to maintain a database of user bandwidth usage using it. I
might see what I can do about modifying it, but I'm shocking at perl :)

Netfilter sounds like a much saner idea - how would you grab the user
a packet belongs to when you parse the logfiles?
Thanks,
Patrick

 
> On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 12:49:34 +0200, Daniel Frederiksen
> <cyberdoc@cyberdoc.dk> wrote:
> > Hej Patrick
> >
> > Again there might be to ways I think. You could log the traffic via
> > libpcap or netfilter.
> >
> > Netfilter could be set up to log specific traffic and afterwords you
> > could parse the logfile and flush it. The collected data could then be
> > put into a RRD base and graphed. The parsing of the logfiles is quite
> > simple.
> >
> > Libpcap can do pretty much the same. However it might use up more CPU
> > and memory in the process. I guess I could whip up a perlscript that
> > uses libpcap to do that, if you don't know how.
> >
> > There are other projects out there resembling all this, but with a lot
> > of other features included. Although I can't remember them at the time.
> > *ponders*. If it comes back to me I'll post it.
> >
> > Best regards
> > Daniel Frederiksen, Cyberdoc.dk
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 00:47, Patrick Coleman wrote:
> > > Thanks for those links. I'm building this server from scratch, so
> > > kernel recompiling is fine. But will these tools be able to monitor
> > > the bandwidth of individual users on the server itself? I realise you
> > > grab the apache logs to monitor bandwidth for web servers, but what
> > > about other services, say ssh, scp or wget? Is there an way to log the
> > > total amount of data passing through an interface? Is this possible?
> > > Thanks for your help,
> > > Patrick
> >
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