On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 22:51, Kim Jensen wrote: > On Wednesday 26 March 2003 22:11, Rowan Reid wrote: > > I have an answer but you also got me thinking. A good tool to keep > > track of traffic via ip addresses would be mrtg. However is there an > > mrtg type tool that uses the counters in iptables rules to keep track of > > traffic and output it in a user friendly form. > > If you wish to see things in a more user friendly way (or usable way, as no > system is friendly :-) can be hard as you have to define what in what you > wish to see things! > > mrtg is quite good, since you get the results on a webpage, but for tracking > ip specific things - I don't know, as I don't think the kernel remembers this > statistic. You can read per interface but not from each ip connecting to an > interface. You can indeed log from each IP connecting. In fact you may read whatever you configure iptables to log. You may end up with one heck of a ruleset, as you need one iptables rule for every different parameter you want to log. Bjørn
