- To: 'Rev Simon Rumble' <simon@xxxxxxxxxx>, slug@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: RE: [SLUG] IP Accounting
- From: John Wiltshire <jw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed Aug 2 15:08:13 2000
From: Rev Simon Rumble [mailto:simon@xxxxxxxxxx]
>
> What do people use for accounting for IP traffic? I need to
> be able to
> get finite daily results broken down in each direction. Pretty graphs
> are all well and good but I need finite figures to guestimate future
> costs...
>
> The options seem to be ipac and mrtg. I've had problems with ipac
> before (losing old data) and mrtg uses snmp which is (I'm
> told) not very
> complete or reliable in the Linux kernel...
>
> Ideas? It's for an old kernel machine 2.0.36 and I can't
> upgrade it but
> ip accounting is compiled in.
Try ntop? www.ntop.org
John Wiltshire