On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 9:04 AM, 0 <0...@0throot.com> wrote: > >> Is there a way to keep track of the network traffic through all the >> different interface devices in my system. Or a library to do so, I want to >> create a log that store the total size of file transfered since the script >> or program starts running. >> > > By default, iptables keeps track of the number of bytes and packets for > each rule. You can use the option -vx to display them. In your case, > based on what the script does, you can add an iptables rules matching > the network activity which will keep track of number of bytes and > packets. You can reset the counters using -Z option. Here is a sample > output from iptables, > > $ sudo iptables -vxnL INPUT|tr -s ' '|cut -d" " -f14,2-4|tr ' ' '\t' > .... > pkts bytes target > 623 51632 ACCEPT > 111 6362 ACCEPT > 77 4620 ACCEPT > 13454 805868 ACCEPT dpt:22 > 3500 182164 ACCEPT dpt:15025 > 166 9936 ACCEPT dpt:15465 > 1 60 ACCEPT dpt:15587 > 3768 199107 ACCEPT dpt:15993 > 3417 176023 REJECT > > The article below may help, it seems to talk about traffic accounting > with iptables, > > http://www.catonmat.net/blog/traffic-accounting-with-iptables/ >
Very good idea. Usually netflow is used for this purpose. Various commercial and open source tools are available based on Cisco Netflow protocol. -Girish -- Gayatri Hitech http://gayatri-hitech.com _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
