Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:47:51 +0200 From: Gunther Mayer <gunther.mayer@googlemail.com> To: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Saving pf state for accounting Message-ID: <4981A577.6090002@gmail.com>
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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
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