Re: Packet counting/auditing per IP

Hristo Benev
Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:15:43 -0000

Tom Eastep wrote:
> Michael Mansour wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I''m using shorewall 2.4.9 running on Scientific Linux 4.4
(RHEL 4 Update 4).
>>
>> I''d like to start counting the bandwidth they are using,
whether that be for
>> subnets or IP''s on their dedicated servers.
>>
>> Can shorewall do this? if so, how? will I need to upgrade the shorewall
version?
>>
>
> You might take a look at Shorewall''s Accounting facility
> (http://www.shorewall.net/Accounting.html.
>
> It would be a good idea to upgrade, given that 2.4 is no longer supported.
> Be sure to read the release notes carefully before upgrading as there are
> some issues when going from 2.x to 3.x.
>
> -Tom
>
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According to the document if I want to do accounting by IP and I have
/24 network I need to have 253(4) rules.

Is that statement correct?

Thanks