Check out MRTG. It's a bit of a challenge to set up, but it's worked for a ton of sites in the same situation.
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 03:05:25AM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > 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. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ___ ___ / _ | / _ \ Ari Pollak - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.aripollak.com / __ |/ ___/ /_/ |_/_/ Knowing Murphy's Law won't help either.