From owner-freebsd-ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 9 03:42:49 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA89C16A4CF for ; Tue, 9 Mar 2004 03:42:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx1.subnetmask.net (mx1.subnetmask.net [207.44.145.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AECD843D41 for ; Tue, 9 Mar 2004 03:42:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mcgehrin@reverse.net) Received: from localhost (mx1.subnetmask.net [207.44.145.31]) by mx1.subnetmask.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FA11F396C for ; Tue, 9 Mar 2004 06:42:48 -0500 (EST) Received: by localhost (Postfix, from userid 1012) id EE94B6706; Tue, 9 Mar 2004 06:42:47 -0500 (EST) Received: from orange (unknown [192.168.0.175]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 55F4F5B3E for ; Tue, 9 Mar 2004 06:42:47 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <001201c405cb$a4c09140$af00a8c0@orange> From: "Matthew McGehrin" To: References: <47557.213.118.81.79.1078754157.squirrel@webmail.boxke.be> Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 06:42:47 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.0 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.63 X-Spam-Level: Subject: Re: ipfw counters (field 3) X-BeenThere: freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: IPFW Technical Discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 11:42:50 -0000 95 percentile is not actual traffic. It says 95% of the time you are below this figure for traffic. There's an old patch you can run with mrtg here: http://www.seanadams.com/95/ A better alternative would to run rrdtool on an interface and have rrdtool record 95% http://www.red.net/support/resourcecentre/leasedline/percentile.php -- Matthew ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jimmy Scott" To: Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 8:55 AM Subject: ipfw counters (field 3) > Hello, > > Me and a friend of my are located in a datacenter on the same switch, > We both have the same 3 rules, to count the traffic. > > Our ISP uses MRTG with the 95% rule to charge us, > now i was wondering, i have 2MB traffic echt day, theire MRTG says 70MB > i thought it was because of all the ARP traffic. > 00010 11345045 1068348938 count ip from any to any via xl0 > 00011 6826150 466872667 count ip from any to any in recv xl0 > 00012 4518893 601476157 count ip from any to any out xmit xl0 > > 00010 27743578 2887729820 count ip from any to any via xl0 > 00011 17168887 1405455507 count ip from any to any in recv xl0 > 00012 10574689 1482274199 count ip from any to any out xmit xl0