Hello Peter,

On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 11:27:07PM +0200, Pajlatek wrote:

> How is it possible to make it:
> 1)Log time exact as the packet flows
> [i understand that we can't make it use exact second time figure like
> 10:22:12 and next flow at 10:22:13. ? ]

This isn't a task for an accounting tool; you should divert your eyes to some
flow logging tool. And it seems very likely that they are available only in
conjunction with NetFlow (eg. flow-tools). Moreover, logging your flows should
make you drop the chance to insert them into a SQL database unless you just
need last few hours of traffic (think at the fact that an user connecting his
browser to the CNN site can spawn in a shot up to 100 unidirectional flows). 
Said this all, flow logging is possible but it should be more efficient kept
disjoint from accounting/billing/etc. operations. An example on how to let
more tools (one for accounting - eg. for the billing department -, the other
for flow logging - eg. for the CSIRT -) to coexist in a single environment is
depicted into the 9th slide of the PDF:
http://www.ba.cnr.it/~paolo/pmacct/p_lucente-accounting.pdf

> 2)What did i ommit in conf file so i cant see the PORT and MAC fileds other 
> than
> 0 ?

To account MAC addresses you can use the 'src_mac' and 'dst_mac' keywords in the
'aggregate' directive; for ports, 'src_port' and 'dst_port'. They are documented
in CONFIG-KEYS.


Cheers,
Paolo



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