Richard Hartmann wrote: > Hi all, > > I need to log the traffic each local IP in a NAT'ed network generates > per day. > > Unfortunately, the environment is rather restricted and compiling new > software is not an option. Thus, I am wondering if I can abuse iptables, > which is in use anyway, to log for me, as well. > > The end result should be a log which contains IP, date and traffic > generated. I don't really care about the output format as I will perl it > into the format I need, anyway. iptables -N ACCOUNTING iptables -A FORWARD -j ACCOUNTING iptables -A ACCOUNTING -s your_user_ip -j ACCEPT iptables -A ACCOUNTING -d your_user_ip -j ACCEPT bam, with iptables -L ACCOUNTING -n -v you can have packet/byte counters ;) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html