On 03/14/2009 09:59:30 AM, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Hi Paolo,
> 
> I'm running pmacctd 0.11.5 on a small network for traffic accounting.
> Generally it's behaving well, but occasionally I can see weird data
> being
> inserted:

> The byte counters look bogus to me. It's hard to imagine how anyone
> could
> send 4 GB of data down through my cable modem connection in just one
> minute.

> Do you have any ideas what might be going on here?

Have you bound to an interface with 'interface'?

Could be you're picking up, say, a file transfer
to your gateway.  You'd want to monitor your
external interface, or filter out traffic to
the box itself.

Just a thought.

As a debugging aid (or in general) you might consider
putting your rfc1918 network in a networks file.
With an aggregate on sum_net and without any other filters
you get the cross product of all the possibilities
so can see if there's traffic from/to the local
network or other things you're perhaps not expecting.
If nothing else a quick test with the memory
plugin may be revealing.

Regards,

Karl <[email protected]>
Free Software:  "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
                  -- Robert A. Heinlein

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