[plug] Traffic Stats

[Ryan]

I have used ipchains accounting, rrdtool and Perl in the past to do 
something similar, to show me the breakdown per port/protocol of my traffic 
totals.

The tables you'll have to create yourself and use rrdtool for the graphs 
based on Perl parsing/logging of the ipchains data.

There is probably a package out there already, but I find making my own 
system easier than spending the time hunting for, then reading 
documentation about a program I don't know ... and the end result is 
something I want, not something I had to persuade myself to like.

Depends if you are up to it ... I have a fetish for stats, you may not ... 
I'd give you the code, but the machine I was developing it on got stolen a 
while back, and I haven't got back to it since :(

Ryan

At 04:19 PM 10/03/02 +0800, you wrote:
>I am looking for software to provide an end user (i.e. non tech) with
>detailed statistics of their link usage to their ISP (not a simple MRTG
>graph). Has to be human readable i.e. easy to read graphs and tables. I
>guess it would be something similar to the parsed output of Cisco netflow.
>
>It just needs to give them an idea of where their traffic is going and
>coming from to justify and/or question any suspect traffic.
>
>Any ideas on the best way to do this ? snort, squid, argus ?