From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stef Coene Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 17:41:53 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] Performanace fo the Iptables Server Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 27 August 2003 19:31, hare ram wrote: > Hi Stef > > How about Source and Desitination port, and protocol wise bytes transfer ( > like http, ftp, icmp, udp), if i want to track. > > next limitation, if the Server goes down, the traffic will be zero, that > will be another Limitation Not true. If you record the counters each 5 minutes, you loose max 5 minutes of counters. You can record the difference between the 2 reads and discard negative values. > If i send the all the traffic to Mysql, so i can get the old data to. > > may be you can correct me if, i may be wrong thinking > > correct me with the best methods to do If you really want it very detailed (src/dst - address/port), you indeed have to log it to mysql or so. You can calulcate the number of updates you have to do mysql and simulate this on a test box. Stef -- stef.coene@docum.org "Using Linux as bandwidth manager" http://www.docum.org/ #lartc @ irc.oftc.net _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/