hey guys, tonight i am bombarding you with questions... sorry. i need to get a semi-exact idea of the traffic through one of our servers, in and out. i understand that netstat -s gives me interface statistics, but there are two problems with it:
(a) it lists packets only. as i understand, a packet is not always the same size. so that's no big use. (b) i absolutely need to cope with the disaster case in which the server goes down - netstat would loose all data... there is iptables/ipchains, but (b) still applies. i figure that there has to be a way to record these data without going higher up the provider hierarchy, right? any ideas? i don't like daily ipchains accounting mails and subsequent counter flushes... martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:" [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- women who want to be equal to men lack imagination.