Hi Payal, I think you can just run cron jobs and take a snapshot of the ifconfig = command or iptables -L -v command. Then compare the outputs with dates = and you will have the stats you need. You can also zero the counters every hour if you want with iptables -Z = after you save the counters for the last hour. You can have your cron job add up packets etc.=20 Hope this helps, Yogini -----Original Message----- From: Payal [mailto:payal@hotpop.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 11:56 AM To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org Subject: Re: measure traffic 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.
