Hi Stef thanks for the reply yes i would like to do accounting the source IP so i need to log them all the traffic, so i will know each IP how much transfering DATA with my configuration, is there any performance issue i may have more than thousands of passing through this firewall or qos server so my PC will have any performance issue or, this configuration need any modification thanks hare ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stef Coene" <stef.coene@xxxxxxxxx> To: "hare ram" <hareram@xxxxxxxxxx>; <netfilter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <lartc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 9:00 PM Subject: Re: [LARTC] Performanace fo the Iptables Server > On Wednesday 27 August 2003 07:46, hare ram wrote: > > Hi all > > > > I have RH 9.0 > > PIII with 550Mhz > > 512MB RAM > > > > working fine with Iptables+TC+HTB > > > > Now i want o make accounting system using ULOG > > > > so i introduced to send all logs to Mysql > > So i can make my own Graphs > > > > iptables -A INPUT -j ULOG > > iptables -A FORWARD -j ULOG > > iptables -A OUTPUT -j ULOG > > > > > > the Server is connected to Several Clients > > > > does this server will have any Impact of performance > > or this PC can handle Easily > > > > how can caluculate the PC configuration, > The needed configutation also depends on how many logs you will have and how > you are going to proces them. > And do you really want to log everything? If you are interested in what's > going thru your firewall, you can also log the connections. Or you can > install ntop on the firewall. > > Stef > > -- > > stef.coene@xxxxxxxxx > "Using Linux as bandwidth manager" > http://www.docum.org/ > #lartc @ irc.oftc.net > >
