On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, AdStar wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm running a bering firewall in my production environment and have a couple
> of questions about the accounting side of things with shorewall and firewall
> load.
>
> How often are the counters reset, is it only on a shorewall restart (firewall
> reboot etc)?

Yes.

>
> If I wanted to track traffic from a specific internal IP I gather I just add
> it to the source/destination as below?
>
> ACTION CHAIN SOURCE          DESTINATION      PROTO DEST PORT SRC PORT
> www1:COUNT - eth0             eth1:10.0.100.36 tcp 80
> www1:COUNT - eth1:10.0.100.36 eth0             tcp - 80
> DONE www1
>

 Yes.

> How can I track how hard the firewall is working?
> When I say how hard, as in packet throughput, cpu load etc.
> What do I check for to know if I need to upgrade the CPU, or go to 1000/100
> NIC's etc
>

Hopefully folks who run Linux for a living can help you -- I upgrade my
firewall when I can afford it.

-Tom
--
Tom Eastep    \ Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool
Shoreline,     \ http://shorewall.net
Washington USA  \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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