What might be exceeding useful is the addition of in/out packet counters in /proc/net/ip_conntrack - kind of like Cisco's netflow. Not only would historical info been gleaned, but a nice real-time "what's goin on with the net" tool could be built off of that. -C -----Original Message----- From: netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org [mailto:netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org]On Behalf Of Antony Stone Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 9:33 AM To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org Subject: Re: transfer Bytes Counting On Wednesday 02 October 2002 2:39 pm, HareRam wrote: > Hi > > thanks for the reply > i did the same, but iam not able to see the in and out bytes If you mean a separate count of bytes in each direction on the connection, you would need to have two rules, one to count packets in and one to count packets out. > is there any way i can send those packets to mysql > from there i can generate report I believe other people have posted to this list with mechanisms for capturing log entries to sql database - can anyone post a tool or URL to help with this? Antony. -- You can spend the whole of your life trying to be popular, but at the end of the day the size of the crowd at your funeral will be largely dictated by the weather. - Frank Skinner
