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Date:      Sun, 25 Jul 2004 12:34:59 +0200
From:      Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
To:        Angus Barrow <angus.g.barrow@stud.man.ac.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Interface Statistics
Message-ID:  <20040725103459.GA14659@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
In-Reply-To: <1090753960.2113.9.camel@agb-dtop.studnet>
References:  <1090753960.2113.9.camel@agb-dtop.studnet>

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On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 12:12:40PM +0100, Angus Barrow wrote:
> Hi,
> 	I'm a relative newbie to the world of computer admining and have the
> following problem.  I'm one of a group of students sharing a connection
> which is limited (by the cabelco) to 1GB maximum transfer in any 24 hour
> period.  I've been trying in vain to find a way to at least warn us if
> the transfer in a 24 hour period approaches a gigabyte.
> 
> 	I know that on linux ifconfig shows a counter of the total amount of
> data transfered over an interface and was wondering if there is a
> similar tool for FreeBSD as the ifconfig provided doesn't seem to show
> this information.
> 
> 	I've tried googleing in vain and have attempted to set up ntop and
> zabbix to see if they could provide the information (ntop didn't want to
> play and zabbix still has me beat).
> 
> 	I'm running the configuration shown below:
> 
> 
> 
> 		-=INTERNET=-
> 		     |
> 		     |
> 		-=ROUTER.STUDNET=-
> 			|
> 			|
> 		     -=SWITCH=-
> 			|
> 			|
> 		   -=Computers in rooms=-
> 
> The router has two NIC's, xl0 is DHCP configured and is the internet,
> the other (dc0) is 192.168.1.1.  The router is running FreeBSD
> 5.2.1-RELEASE and drops almost all incoming traffic via ipfw and uses
> natd to masquerade the connections.

Parsing the output of 'netstat -I xl0 -b' (or 'netstat -ib' for all
interfaces) seems like a viable solution.


-- 
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Erik Trulsson
ertr1013@student.uu.se



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