From: Alexander Clouter <alex@digriz.org.uk>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: low overhead packet capturing on linux
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 09:21:05 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1lghs7-l16.ln1@chipmunk.wormnet.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 201011301728.05197.thomas@fjellstrom.ca
Thomas Fjellstrom <thomas@fjellstrom.ca> wrote:
>
> I'm working on a little tool to monitor and measure bandwidth use on a vm
> host, down to keeping track of all guest and host bandwidth, including,
> eventually per layer7 protocol use.
>
...iptables? You get packet and byte counters there for free and you
can have a 'web, smtp, $service[0], $service[1], ... , other' easily
enough.
Five to eight years ago we (an ISP) used this at a previous workplace of
mine to do xDSL traffic accounting for our users.
Cheers
--
Alexander Clouter
.sigmonster says: problem drinker, n.:
A man who never buys.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-01 10:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-01 0:28 low overhead packet capturing on linux Thomas Fjellstrom
2010-12-01 9:21 ` Alexander Clouter [this message]
2010-12-01 10:18 ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2010-12-01 12:19 ` Pekka Pietikainen
2010-12-01 20:28 ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2010-12-02 14:49 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
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