Re: Measuring traffic that goes thrugh a specific IP

[gummi7@simnet.is]

Oh, yes, traceroute was it.
I know that traceroute can't measure traffic but I was thinking of something like this.
Connect to IP -> traceroute %IP -> grep "The-specified-ip-I-want-to-measure-the-my-traffic-trough" -> if(!grep-returned-none) then measure-traffic.
I know that this is not a shell script nor a program but this is a kind of a flowchart that explains what I want to do and the programs that I know that could be used. This methood is possible, right?
The only problem then is to get a program to pass the IP i'm connecting to, to traceroute. But what can be used to measure then traffic that the "if" tells it to measure. Can I use iptables to do that, or is there another program for linux that does that?

btw, for those of you who don't know the line "if(!grep-returned-none)" means: if grep does _not_ return none

> On Thursday 06 February 2003 07:33 am, gummi7@simnet.is wrote:
>> "If you mean that the specific IP is simply a router somewhere that
>> the traffic 'might happen' to pass through in its travels" That's
>> exactly what I want to do :(
>> I can always find out if a packet passes trough that specifec IP(the
>> one I want to measure, therefore being internatoinal) by using a tool
>> like DOS's "tracert", doesn't that help? Do you know of a program for
>> linux that does what I am trying to do?
> 
> "traceroute" is the Linux equivalent of "tracert".  It will trace a route 
> to a given IP, and note all the IP's along the way.  It doesn't let you 
> measure traffic from your box that flows through a given IP, though, and 
> doesn't assure that your traffic actually follows that exact route.
> 
> j
>