On Wednesday 27 August 2003 19:31, hare ram wrote:
> Hi Stef
>
> How about Source and Desitination port, and protocol wise bytes transfer (
> like http, ftp, icmp, udp), if i want to track.
>
> next limitation, if the Server goes down, the traffic will be zero, that
> will be another Limitation
Not true. If you record the counters each 5 minutes, you loose max 5 minutes
of counters. You can record the difference between the 2 reads and discard
negative values.
> If i send the all the traffic to Mysql, so i can get the old data to.
>
> may be you can correct me if, i may be wrong thinking
>
> correct me with the best methods to do
If you really want it very detailed (src/dst - address/port), you indeed have
to log it to mysql or so.
You can calulcate the number of updates you have to do mysql and simulate this
on a test box.
Stef
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