I am using trafd and I am quite happy with it, if I dump internal tables to disk often enough.
Nick -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Seguin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 11:11 PM To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Network accounting I’ve searched Google, I’ve searched through the FreeBSD-net archives and have gotten a few leads to what I’m seeking, but unfortunately, nothing solid enough for me to go off of (so yes, I’ve been doing some homework first! ;) ) But, here’s my situation. A dedicated FreeBSD transparent firewall-bridge with 3 NICs (two for the bridge w/o IP, one for console). I’m using IPFW for the firewall, and at the moment I’m doing some very bare-bones statistics via a couple of count rules. I track abusive users through random usage of TCPDump (when I feel like it basically). However, I have some heavy downloader’s on the campus so I want to do deep statistics gathering. Mainly, how much is (daily/weekly/monthly) the traffic by IP address and independently the traffic by service (HTTP/SMTP). So my research seems to indicate that the best is to use something to generate netflow data (Maybe IPCad?). However, I sort of feel that’s a bit heavy for my needs, I’d have only one source of data collection. But it’s not like I’m tight in processor power nor hard disk space and I even have a second server already running web/Mysql under my control. I have a small list of tools, but it all leads up to my question. I therefore ask out to the list, what recommendations for traffic accounting/statistics gathering can you give me? -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.6.13 - Release Date: 1/16/2005 _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
