On 06.01.2010 05:16, netfilter-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hey guys, > > Our servers are in a managed hosting solution where we do not have > access to our switch. We have a lot of users that use our VPN solution > and I'd like to better track their bandwidth usage. I'm considering two > options for this: > > - Using one of the many libpcap daemons to monitor and record traffic > patterns > - Use iptables > > Each VPN node has the possibility of 64,000 IP addresses so if I used > iptables, I'd need to create iptables rules for each of those IP > addresses. That seems silly to me, but am I better off doing that than > running a daemon that at the end of the day will basically do the same > thing? Thanks in advance. > > You might take a look at the ACCOUNT target from xtables-addons. http://xtables-addons.sourceforge.net/ regards Mart -- 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
