On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 12:12:40PM +0100, Angus Barrow wrote: > Hi, > I'm a relative newbie to the world of computer admining and have the > following problem. I'm one of a group of students sharing a connection > which is limited (by the cabelco) to 1GB maximum transfer in any 24 hour > period. I've been trying in vain to find a way to at least warn us if > the transfer in a 24 hour period approaches a gigabyte. > > I know that on linux ifconfig shows a counter of the total amount of > data transfered over an interface and was wondering if there is a > similar tool for FreeBSD as the ifconfig provided doesn't seem to show > this information. > > I've tried googleing in vain and have attempted to set up ntop and > zabbix to see if they could provide the information (ntop didn't want to > play and zabbix still has me beat). > > I'm running the configuration shown below: > > > > -=INTERNET=- > | > | > -=ROUTER.STUDNET=- > | > | > -=SWITCH=- > | > | > -=Computers in rooms=- > > The router has two NIC's, xl0 is DHCP configured and is the internet, > the other (dc0) is 192.168.1.1. The router is running FreeBSD > 5.2.1-RELEASE and drops almost all incoming traffic via ipfw and uses > natd to masquerade the connections.
Parsing the output of 'netstat -I xl0 -b' (or 'netstat -ib' for all interfaces) seems like a viable solution. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
