Hi All,
I have a DSL connection which has a bandwidth capacity of 3GB a month...having said that I have 16 machines hooked up on the network with a linux server, is there a away to capture/monitor the total consumption of bandwidth utilised per machine or server basis.This is complicated as I have squid also for caching.....did a lot of reserch there were some scripts for iptables but I cant figure out how to use it ?Has anyone used something like this B4?Help is really appreciated.
Regards
Harry
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Harish
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Hi
there r couple things u can do:
1. every rule in iptables counts bytes of data which went through it. u can look at the counters by using command:
iptables -L -v
or maybe more specific for FORWARD chain: iptables -L FORWARD -v
u can place a specific counter for one host:
/sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -j ACCEPT -i eth0 -m state --state ESTABLISHED -d 192.168.0.19 --set-counters 0 0
2. use specialized netfilter addons (patch-o-matic) for counting and possibly doing what ever u want with leechers. the ones u can use are from BASE repository: QUOTA and from EXTRA repository connbytes. the web site is of course www.iptabless.org
GL & HF :)
