Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 15 Apr 2001 20:41:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 15 Apr 2001 20:41:09 -0400 Received: from [24.70.141.118] ([24.70.141.118]:27886 "EHLO asdf.capslock.lan") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 15 Apr 2001 20:41:00 -0400 Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 20:40:55 -0400 (EDT) From: "Mike A. Harris" X-X-Sender: To: David Findlay cc: Subject: Re: IP Acounting Idea for 2.5 In-Reply-To: <01041707532801.00352@workshop> Message-ID: X-Unexpected-Header: The Spanish Inquisition X-Spam-To: uce@ftc.gov Copyright: Copyright 2001 by Mike A. Harris - All rights reserved MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, David Findlay wrote: >I am using the kernel IP Accounting in Linux to record the amount of data >transfered via my Linux internet gateway from individual IP addresses. This >currently requires me to set up an accounting rule for each IP address that I >want to record accounting info for. If I had 200 machines to individually log >this would require me to set 200 rules. > >In the 2.5 series of kernels, working towards 2.6, could you please make the >IP Accounting so that I can set a single rule that will make it watch all IP >traffic going from the local network, through the masquerading service to the >internet, and log local IP Addresses using it? This would allow me to set 1 >rule, but have the information I want on a per IP address system. > >One other person I have talked to would like to see this too, and he >basically says we need a software version of the Cisco IP Accounting >server/router. > >Could you please add this to the next kernel? Please CC me your responses as >I am not a member of the kernel mailing list. Thanks, Perhaps I misunderstand what it is exactly you are trying to do, but I would think that this could be done entirely in userland by software that just adds rules for you instead of you having to do it manually. Just a thought. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike A. Harris - Linux advocate - Free Software advocate This message is copyright 2001, all rights reserved. Views expressed are my own, not necessarily shared by my employer. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and BSD. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/