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Subject: Re: (Ab)using iptables to record byte count per IP?
From: Amos Jeffries <squid3 () treenet ! co ! nz>
Date: 2009-01-10 2:55:33
Message-ID: 49680E25.7030609 () treenet ! co ! nz
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Thomas Jacob wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 13:50 +0200, Artūras Šlajus wrote:
>> Richard Hartmann wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I need to log the traffic each local IP in a NAT'ed network generates
>> > per day.
>> >
>> > Unfortunately, the environment is rather restricted and compiling new
>> > software is not an option. Thus, I am wondering if I can abuse iptables,
>> > which is in use anyway, to log for me, as well.
>> >
>> > The end result should be a log which contains IP, date and traffic
>> > generated. I don't really care about the output format as I will perl it
>> > into the format I need, anyway.
>>
>> iptables -N ACCOUNTING
>> iptables -A FORWARD -j ACCOUNTING
>> iptables -A ACCOUNTING -s your_user_ip -j ACCEPT
>> iptables -A ACCOUNTING -d your_user_ip -j ACCEPT
>>
>> bam, with iptables -L ACCOUNTING -n -v you can have packet/byte counters ;)
>
> Or you could use the external extension ipt_ACCOUNT
>
> http://www.intra2net.com/de/produkte/opensource/ipt_account/
>
> which does the same much faster and you don't have to
> specify lots of accounting rules. Unfortunately you need
> to patch your kernel for that, if you want to use it
> as is.
Whats needed and is anyone working towards getting that integrated properly?
AYJ
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