Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:42:23 -0700 From: Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com> To: Gunther Mayer <gunther.mayer@googlemail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Saving pf state for accounting Message-ID: <ade45ae90901301242x76ea5951o778c2a8c2410d72d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4981A577.6090002@gmail.com> References: <4981A577.6090002@gmail.com>
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And the numbers automatically wrap at 4GB, due to the i386 architecture if you're using such an arch. I have no clue if the amd64 arch will keep it any longer. And yes, I am topposting. On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 5:47 AM, Gunther Mayer <gunther.mayer@googlemail.com > wrote: > Hi guys, > > My server uses up tons of bandwidth every month and I'd like to start > recording what traffic volumes my different services chew up on a monthly > basis. My firewall utility of choice is pf and I've recently come across its > neat "label" facility so that I can do a simple "pfctl -sl" to get the > latest readings. > > That's all fair and well but I lose all that lovely accounting information > upon reboot so how do I go about saving this? I've googled quite a bit to > look for a solution but have found nothing useful so far, just unanswered > posts in the past. > > From what I can tell so far I'd have to write a custom rc script which > redirects "pfctl -sl" into some sort of logfile which then may be retrieved > at a later stage (and added to current counter output). Is there an easier > way perhaps? > > Gunther > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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