Re: Packet counting/auditing per IP

Pieter Ennes
Thu, 18 Jan 2007 23:49:30 -0000

Hi Michael,

Michael Mansour wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I''m using shorewall 2.4.9 running on Scientific Linux 4.4 (RHEL 4
Update 4).
>
> I handle various subents and IP''s for various clients, and they
all go through the shorewall firewall system.
>
> Some clients have subnets, some have only single IP''s.
>
> 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?

Shorewall can do some things in that area, just read about it here:
http://www.shorewall.net/Accounting.html

> If not, what is the best way to do this considering the hosting environment
is all Linux based (apart from the HP procurve switches which are used).

I''m personally very fond of SNMP in combination with Cacti. If
that''s
too much, it would probably be easy to hack up something using only
ifconfig/rrdtool or snmp/rrdtool.

http://www.cacti.net/

--
  - Pieter