In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Glen Turner<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 15:34 +0000, Flvio Pires wrote: >> Well, I work on an ISP and we have a linux box acting as a >> bridge+firewall. With this bridge+firewall we control the packet >> rate per second from each client and from our repeaters. But I can`t >> measure the packet rate per IP. Is there any tool for this?
> The usual approach is to generate NetFlow records -- there are > a number of Linux tools for this. Collect them with a > collector(flow-tools being a common choice). Then have a Perl script > which reads the flow records, processes them whichever way you > desire, and drops the result into a rrdtool file (there are modules > for both reading the flow-tools data and outputing in the > rrdtoolformat). The rrdtool utilities have a limited range of graphs, > but there is a huge selection of graphing packages from other authors > for rrdtool-stored data (Drraw, etc). Flow-tools also > has some third-party analysis tools, some of those have good > "top talker" statistics. > This is a lot of work, since you are really putting a > completemeasurement infrastructure in place to get the one statistic > you desire. But I'd encourage you to do that, since knowing > one statistic usually leads to further questions of the data Thx for the answer Glen, I alread though about something like this. But, isn`t NetFlow just for Cisco IOS ? -- I'm trying a new usenet client for Mac, Nemo OS X. You can download it at http://www.malcom-mac.com/nemo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
