Re: IP Traffic Accounting

[David B Harris <eelf@sympatico.ca>]

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On Sat, 22 Jun 2002 16:02:06 +0200
"yomega" <yomega@wahooo.net> wrote:
> OK this should work, but i still got a question:
> 
> First i start to realize that my log file will become very big with
> even little outbound traffic. Now the cron is exectued and all the
> data written on the hd is analysed and written on the hd. I'm afraid
> that this will injure the health of the HD. Is there any other maybe
> more "clean" possibility to do that loggin? or have i made some
> mistakes in my thoughts?

I'd suggest you use iptable's byte-counting instead. 'iptables -L -n -v
-x' will list the bytes which have _crossed_ each given rule. (So it
won't just count which packets have matched.)

Probably be a lot faster ;)

P.S.: In production, don't forget to use -Z to zero the counters, so you
aren't counting the same packets twice.

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