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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!not-for-mail From: David Henshaw <dhenshaw@silas.cc.monash.edu.au> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: data monitoring software Date: Sun, 06 Jul 1997 21:17:49 +1000 Organization: Monash Uni Lines: 25 Message-ID: <33BF7EDD.41C67EA6@silas.cc.monash.edu.au> References: <867907798.14345@dejanews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ascendp-int-58.cc.monash.edu.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-NNTP-Posting-User: root X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386) To: fk@webnet.com.au Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44012 fk@webnet.com.au wrote: > > Hi, > > I was wondering if anyone knew of any software that could keep track, as > in give me a figure, of all incoming bytes, ie Thur 3th Jul host 129.x.x.x > received X number of bytes , or something similar for FreeBSD systems. > If not, could I gather this info from log files ? > > Thanks > > Fay > > -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- > http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet Take a look at trafshow in the ports/packages. It requires a kernel rebuild, but will do what you need. I'm not sure how you'd log the results though... You could also write your own using the berkely packet filters. trafshow uses these. Beware that it does open a security hole however. -- David Henshaw dhenshaw@silas.cc.monash.edu.au