On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 19:04, Jiann-Ming Su wrote: > > Another thing I'm interested in is the total number of current > connections. Does /proc/net/ip_conntrack provide this info? I've > taken my iptables firewall offline, and I would expect > /proc/net/ip_conntrack to show very few connections, but it seems to > still have quite a bit of historical connections left in it. > > Basically, what I want to be able to do is graph the number of > connections as a function of time with MRTG. I just need to make sure > I'm grabbing the right information. The output of "iptables -nvxL" > seems to be total packets processed. Thanks again for any tips. egrep 'ESTABLISHED|ASSURED' /proc/net/ip_conntrack | wc -l should give you the number of "active" TCP & UDP connections at any given point in time. -j -- Jason Opperisano <opie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
