Hi Rodolfo, Will leave good points on which OS or Linux distribution to prefer to the others.
Capturing traffic off of a span port is task for 'pmacctd'. It's not clear to me whether the router is the Linux box or alternatively what mirrors traffic (router, switch, optical tap, etc.). Be aware inter-vlan traffic, depending on the specific scenario, can be accounted more than once. Accounting on per VLAN or per VLAN/subnet basis can be done no problems: both primitives are supported. Subnets must be defined and the simplest way to do it is via a 'networks_file' configuration directive (see examples/networks.lst.example for map syntax and CONFIG-KEYS for further information about the directive itself). http://www.pmacct.net/docs/cacti.html points to a brief guide to integrate pmacct and Cacti. Although a bit old, it should still apply. Cheers, Paolo On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 05:11:11PM -0400, rodolfo mondion wrote: > Maybe its a silly question but i want to know for your experience and by > other users whats the best linux distribution for use with pmacct. > > What i want to do its somethink like the draw > > ---------------- -------------- > - ROUTER---------------- INTERNET > ---------------- ----- --------------- > ----- > ----- PORT MONITOR AND PMACCT > > > Port monitor with information of all the data who goes > and come from internet and a Linux BOX who is listening the traffic with the > pmacct tool. > > I want account and aggregate information by subnet but in particular for > vlan and graph this information maybe with cacti (for example how much > bandwidth is consumed by vlan 2, 4 and 5, etc. > > Tell me what do you think of this deployment scenario > > Thanks > > > Rodolfo Mondion R. > _______________________________________________ > pmacct-discussion mailing list > http://www.pmacct.net/#mailinglists _______________________________________________ pmacct-discussion mailing list http://www.pmacct.net/#mailinglists
