IP accounting or calculating the number of bytes received from Internet

[Graeme Nichols]

On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 20:05, jludwig wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 22:34, Graeme Nichols wrote:
> > Hi Rick,
> > 
> > I have my ADSL connection up and running, I have everything except mail
> > and browsing blocked in my firewall, using Lokkit, and have Tripwire
> > running. Do you know if there is a package out there that would keep
> > track of the cumulative total of bytes received over my Internet
> > Connection? I don't think Ethereal is able to count bytes cumulatively.
> > Also, do you thing it advantageous to use Logsentry and Portsentry to
> > keep tabs on things?
> The firewall iptables keeps track of everything passing each rule.
> This allows you to see - not only the number of packets and bytes that
> get though - all the data.
> 
> To view the information <iptables -v -n -L>
> 
> For an hourly cumulative file in your crontab file
> 
> 0 0-23 * * * iptables -v -n -L >> 'your file name and location'
> -- 
> jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>

Hi Ludwig (if I have your name wrong, please excuse me), thank you very
much for your help.

-- 

Kind regards,

Graeme Nichols

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