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  From: Andrew Reid <andrew.reid@plug.cx>
  To  : Jim O <jim@kendle.com.au>
  Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 09:10:19 +1030

Re: iptables counters

On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 05:03:15PM +1030, Jim O'Halloran wrote:

> Call me slow, but I've only just discovered the number of bytes and number
> of packets counters that iptables keeps for each rule.  It was actually
> pretty revealing about which of our boxes/services generate the most
> traffic.  What I'd really love to do is be able to graph overall traffic,
> and also traffic for each rule/chain over a period of time.  Does anyone
> know of any tools which might allow me to do such a thing?

Have a look at UCD-SNMP[1] and MRTG[2].

   - andrew

[1] http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/

[2] http://www.mrtg.org/

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