On: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:22:51 -0400, Filipe Brandenburger filbranden@gmail.com wrote:
Have a look at "netacct-mysql": http://sourceforge.net/projects/netacct-mysql/
It uses pcap which puts your network card in promiscuous mode and send all packets to the running daemon, which might be a little heavyweight on the resources if your server uses a lot of network, but it appears to be very flexible in terms of being able to split accounting for different traffic going through the server.
If you want something simpler than that, you may:
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HTH, Filipe
I get the digest version of the list and so my relay is a tad late. Thank you for this. I am rapidly discovering that snmp and mrtg may not really suit my purposes as the NIC seemingly lacks the requisite smarts. Your suggestions are most helpful. Thanks.