On Wed, 2 Jul 2003 08:03:22 +1000, "George Vieira" <georgev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message <09B04A55822EFF4DA48D2E0BB2941D4A15BEAF@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >: > I rule a special chain called `-N MRTG` and store all my counters in > there. Then I wrote my own PHP script to go through the list and > gather the counted packets for each rule and place them into MySQL > every 5 minutes. I then have a crontab every 5 minutes which runs MRTG > and has targets which run my script to gather the counters.. > > The advantage is that reboots don't effect the counts, Monthly counts > can be archived and reset and all sort of little things... > > Oh also, I use RRDTool to graph the targets every 5 minutes too. It's > a fiddley setup and it's not a C++ binary program but esy to make > changes though... > > Does this help you with what you need? ..an url to your tools would be very nice. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case.