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From: Jan Humme <jan.humme@xs4all.nl>
To: Martin Tomasek <mtd@mk.cvut.cz>
Cc: netfilter@lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: advanced ip accounting
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 13:00:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <02070513000901.14428@Lms> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020705074508.GB2006@mt.mk.cvut.cz>

On Friday 05 July 2002 09:45, Martin Tomasek wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm looking for some accounting for netfilter, which should be used like
> this:
>
> iptables -A FORWARD -s 1.2.0.0/16 -j ACCOUNTING
>
> and which sends data to userspace periodically. It should collect
> protocol-ips-ports triplets, for which it will count bytes.
> I could't use -j ULOG or pcap because of big overhead -- I want to use
> it on gigabit router.
>
> Have you seen something like this?

How about using the "IP accounting" facility of iptables? Try:

#iptables -A FORWARD -s 1.2.0.0/16

i.e. without the -j option, to create a counter, and use

#iptables -L -v

to read out the results.

#iptables -Z 

to reset.

You can make similar entries to count by service port.

Jan Humme.


  reply	other threads:[~2002-07-05 11:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-05  7:45 advanced ip accounting Martin Tomasek
2002-07-05 11:00 ` Jan Humme [this message]
2002-07-05 11:06   ` Wiktor Wodecki
2002-07-05 11:46   ` Martin Tomasek

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