Thanks, that's what I wanted to hear. Jason
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 05:46:28PM +0100, Frank Reppin wrote: > On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Jason Morgan wrote: > > Hi, > > yes - why not. I do the same here on our net with IPFW count > rules. In this way I divided those rules to monitor different > subnets, protocols and I also monitor the bandwidth usage > for some services. All this informations gets then piped > through MRTG (www.mrtg.org) and produces some nice graphs - showing > the used bandwidth. > On the other hand it might be enough for you, if you only see > what actually happened by watching the rules manually - in other > words - get the output mailed from time to time. > > Maybe someone has a clue, if a lot of count rules (I mean really lots > of them) have any 'bad' side effects on performance. So far I don't > see problems with around 80 rules on PII400/128MB counting traffic > from/to upstream (2.3Mbit/s) via 100MBit/s interfaces in this box. > I think of doing accounting here for a /22 net (atm this is done > by a linux box with ipac). > > Best regards, > > Frank Reppin > > -- > Heidestr. 15 > 39112 Magdeburg > Germany > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
