Hi, Thanks a lot all for the mail. Well, I was thining more on lines of traffic every hour/day/week/month etc. Cos' then I can challenge the server farm guys that their stats are wrong. Well, about ipac-ng I heard it has some problems with iptables 1.2.5 and kernel 2.4.x. Does it work properly with these two? Thanks a lot and bye. -Payal On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 09:17:33PM +0100, Antony Stone wrote: > On Monday 07 October 2002 7:58 pm, PayalR wrote: > > > Hi, > > I have a small urgent problem. As I told you all before, I have my single > > Linux box at a server farm where I have to pay per Mb of data transmitted. > > I have a doubt that those guys there are cheating me. They are taking more > > money than actual data transmitted. Can I use iptables to log all incoming > > and outgoing data and see total incoming/outgoing data in a day/week/month? > > Why not just use the byte counters in ifconfig ? > > eg: ifconfig eth1 > > eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:2D:05:3F:8D > inet addr:192.168.44.101 Bcast:192.168.44.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:1930 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:1950 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 > RX bytes:912045 (890.6 Kb) TX bytes:265386 (259.1 Kb) > Interrupt:9 Base address:0x100 > > So this machine I'm on now has received 912045 bytes and sent 265386 bytes > since the interface was initialised.... > > Antony. > > -- > > The difference between theory and practice is that > in theory there is no difference, whereas in practice there is.
