Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 08:58:52 -0700 From: Glenn Dawson <glenn@antimatter.net> To: Grant Peel <gpeel@thenetnow.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: IPFW counters. Message-ID: <6.2.3.4.2.20050906084932.025b36d0@cobalt.antimatter.net> In-Reply-To: <007201c5b2e2$248a17b0$6501a8c0@GRANT> References: <007201c5b2e2$248a17b0$6501a8c0@GRANT>
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At 05:54 AM 9/6/2005, Grant Peel wrote: >Hi all, > >I am in the midst of setting up bandwidth monitoring for all my >domains and IPs. To do this I will be using IPFW counter rules and ipa. > >Question: I have about 250 domains on each box. to monitor all of >them, I would need to set up over 500 counter rules, how well will >ipfw and freebsd 4.10 and up) handle this? I tried something like that a while back and while I could create the rules just fine, it proved to be very impractical with the amount of traffic I was dealing with. (around 20Mbits/sec) I ended up using netgraph and ng_netflow(4) to export the data to another machine that processed all the data. -Glenn >-GRant > >_______________________________________________ >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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