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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD and network accounting
Date: 23 Apr 1996 20:06:43 GMT
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Volker.Holfeld@E-Technik.TU-Chemnitz.DE writes:

>I'm looking for a net accounting daemon like net-acct for Linux.

I don't know net-acct.  However, starting with 2.1R, FreeBSD ships
some code that allows for IP accounting.  It is an option for the
`firewall' (better: adress filter) code.

RTFM ipfirewall(4), ipaccounting(4), ipfw(8).

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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