[wellylug] traffic accounting

jamie wellylug at vpc.co.nz
Fri Jan 5 10:47:07 NZDT 2007


On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 09:13 +1300, William Hamilton wrote:

> William Hamilton wrote:
> > Hi all looking for some comments as to what traffic accounting software 
> > people are using.  I have a client with multiple machines internally 
> > with a shorewall firewall.  They would like to start accounting for 
> > traffic volumes, volume and type of data.
> > 
> > Any suggestions.  I can use accounting in shorewall but is there 
> > anything better and easier to report on?
> > 
> > tia
> > 
> > W
> > 
> > 
> Adding to my own email..  they are looking to track usage down to each 
> internal machine.


ntop might be useful for this, but you'd need to have a switch that does
port mirroring between the LAN and the gateway router, or you could run
ntop on your FW or GW router if they're linux boxes.

jamie
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