Counting Bandwidth Usage Thru Ip Tables

is it possible to count the bandwidth usage through IP Tables?



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On 2004-04-22, jack <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> garg_dinesh wrote:
>> is it possible to count the bandwidth usage through IP Tables?
>
> No. - Iptables does not deal with time in any way. It will count
> traffic, though.
>
> If You define bandwith as "amount of data in a certain period of
> time", this is where iptables alone won't help You.
>
> You can periodically read the counters and divide the difference
> to the last reading by the period of time that has elapsed since then,
> but I don't think that's what You want.
>
> There are other tools around to deal with this.

e.g. ipac(-ng).

That defines iptables rules, read their accounting via cronjob and
save the values to files or a database, and sums up.

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garg_dinesh wrote:
> is it possible to count the bandwidth usage through IP Tables?

No. - Iptables does not deal with time in any way. It will count
traffic, though.

If You define bandwith as "amount of data in a certain period of
time", this is where iptables alone won't help You.

You can periodically read the counters and divide the difference
to the last reading by the period of time that has elapsed since then,
but I don't think that's what You want.

There are other tools around to deal with this.


Cheers, Jack.

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