Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:03:13 +0200 From: "DA Forsyth" <d.forsyth@ru.ac.za> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: gunther.mayer@googlemail.com Subject: Re:Saving pf state for accounting Message-ID: <4982C251.27467.D92C92A@d.forsyth.ru.ac.za> In-Reply-To: <20090129164452.D34311065795@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20090129164452.D34311065795@hub.freebsd.org>
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On 29 Jan 2009 , freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org entreated about "freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 246, Issue 69": > Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:47:51 +0200 > Subject: Saving pf state for accounting > > 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? I'd use MRTG to store the numbers continuously, viewable as graphs. -- DA Fo rsyth Network Supervisor Principal Technical Officer -- Institute for Water Research http://www.ru.ac.za/institutes/iwr/
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