On Thursday, October 30, 2014 19:53:15 Simon Hobson wrote: > Joshua J. Kugler <[email protected]> wrote: > > We are using shorewall traffic accounting on our border router (home > > network). Works great, and gives us the info we need. Sometimes, for > > various reasons, our border router experiences a (possibly accidental) > > reboot, and all our accounting information is lost. > > Have you considered collecting the data periodically and storing it > elsewhere ? AT work I collect all the traffic data with a combination > (depending on what I'm collecting and how I want it displayed) of home made > scripts, home made CGI scripts, Cacti - but in all cases using RRD > databases http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/ > > Counter resets are no issue if your RRDs are setup correctly - you just lose > a little data across the reading period where the reset occurred. > > That won't get you exact figures, but in general you aren't after that for > network traffic stats. However, if you are interested in (for example) > "total traffic over the last 24 hours" then it should be pretty accurate.
Yes, we could do that. Right now, we have it set up to simply send an e-mail at the end of the month, and reset the counters (cron job). Works for what we need, without a lot of additional setup. j -- Joshua Kugler Part-Time System Admin/Programmer http://www.eeinternet.com - Fairbanks, AK PGP Key: http://pgp.mit.edu/ ID 0x73B13B6A ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Shorewall-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users
