[mrtg] Re: Accounting rules and MRTG
Alex van den Bogaerdt
alex at slot.hollandcasino.nl
Sat Feb 3 00:57:21 MET 2001
John Oliver wrote:
>
> Oh, is *that* all? :-)
>
> I can't "compose a command that returns the statistics for a particular
> address" 'cause I don't know where or how those statistics are kept.
> I've never done this before, so i don't know where to start...
Then why not just tell that. In the manual page for ipchains
is described how to do accounting.
You don't know how to use IP chains; this is not a MRTG problem.
First rule of ipchains is: be careful.
If you do something wrong you might close yourself out (remote
administration) or at least disrupt normal services.
Simple command to count SMTP and NNTP traffic:
ipchains --new-chain account
ipchains --insert input --jump account
ipchains --insert account --protocol tcp --source-port 25 --bidirectional
ipchains --insert account --protocol tcp --source-port 119 --bidirectional
To list the numbers:
ipchains --list account --verbose --exact
Now my original answer:
Write a script that parses the output of that last command
(which I assumed you new about) and make it output some numbers
in MRTG compliant format (see reference.txt in the doc dir).
cheers,
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