Re: [LARTC] Performanace fo the Iptables Server

["hare ram" <hareram@sol.net.in>]

Hi Stef

thanks for the reply

yes i would like to do accounting the source IP
so i need to log them all the traffic,
so i will know each IP how much transfering DATA

with my configuration, is there any performance issue
i may have more than thousands of passing through this firewall or qos
server

so my PC will have any performance issue or,
this configuration need any modification

thanks
hare
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stef Coene" <stef.coene@docum.org>
To: "hare ram" <hareram@sol.net.in>; <netfilter@lists.samba.org>
Cc: <lartc@mailman.ds9a.nl>
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 9:00 PM
Subject: Re: [LARTC] Performanace fo the Iptables Server


> On Wednesday 27 August 2003 07:46, hare ram wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > I have RH 9.0
> > PIII with 550Mhz
> > 512MB RAM
> >
> > working fine with Iptables+TC+HTB
> >
> > Now i want o make accounting system using ULOG
> >
> > so i introduced  to send all logs to Mysql
> > So i can make my own Graphs
> >
> > iptables -A INPUT -j ULOG
> > iptables -A FORWARD -j ULOG
> > iptables -A OUTPUT -j ULOG
> >
> >
> > the Server is connected to Several Clients
> >
> > does this server will have any Impact of performance
> > or this PC can handle Easily
> >
> > how can caluculate the PC configuration,
> The needed configutation also depends on how many logs you will have and
how
> you are going to proces them.
> And do you really want to log everything?  If you are interested in what's
> going thru your firewall, you can also log the connections.  Or you can
> install ntop on the firewall.
>
> Stef
>
> --
>
> stef.coene@docum.org
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>
>

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