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RE: [SLUG] IP Accounting


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