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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!in-news.erinet.com!imci5!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!benjy.csn.tu-chemnitz.de!mha From: Michael Hasenstein <mha@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD and network accounting Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 12:31:41 +0200 Organization: University of Technology Chemnitz, FRG Lines: 26 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.92.960425122633.110A-100000@benjy.csn.tu-chemnitz.de> References: <4lgfmj$n64@narses.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> <4ljd8j$ng0@uriah.heep.sax.de> <Pine.LNX.3.92.960424084114.105B-100000@benjy.csn.tu-chemnitz.de> <830348589.3000@arg1.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: benjy.csn.tu-chemnitz.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Sender: mha@benjy.csn.tu-chemnitz.de In-Reply-To: <830348589.3000@arg1.demon.co.uk> On Wed, 24 Apr 1996, Andrew Gordon wrote: > Michael Hasenstein <mha@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote: > >tcpdump is also useless, since it puts a device into promiscous mode, > >which makes the accounting files far too big. I can tell nacctd to only > >count packets that go through the router. > > What's wrong with the "-p" option to tcpdump? tcpdump is useless for us, just believe it. It would take too long to explain our situation and it wouldn't be of interest, too. Very short: We have a second (linux) box where accounting works very well with nacctd, and we really don't want a second solution for the same purpose. So my (now more specific) question is: What do I have to change in the sources in order to not only be able to compile nacctd (we did that) but to get it working! -- ******************************************************************* email: Michael.Hasenstein@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de (MIME welcome) homepage: http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~mha my private pc: benjy.csn.tu-chemnitz.de (Linux!!) or 134.109.104.2 *******************************************************************