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Message-ID: <1lghs7-l16.ln1@chipmunk.wormnet.eu>
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 09:21:05 +0000
From: Alexander Clouter <alex@...riz.org.uk>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: low overhead packet capturing on linux
Thomas Fjellstrom <thomas@...llstrom.ca> wrote:
>
> I'm working on a little tool to monitor and measure bandwidth use on a vm
> host, down to keeping track of all guest and host bandwidth, including,
> eventually per layer7 protocol use.
>
...iptables? You get packet and byte counters there for free and you
can have a 'web, smtp, $service[0], $service[1], ... , other' easily
enough.
Five to eight years ago we (an ISP) used this at a previous workplace of
mine to do xDSL traffic accounting for our users.
Cheers
--
Alexander Clouter
.sigmonster says: problem drinker, n.:
A man who never buys.
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