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Article in SysAdmin: Monitoring Net Traffic

Contributed by jose on from the traffic-monitor dept.

Rich Goldstein writes: " http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9053/sam0403j/0403j.htm "

The article is Monitoring Net Traffic with OpenBSD's Packet Filter and was written by the esteemed Randal L. Schwartz. It's a neat description of a setup using PF and SQLite.

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  1. By Anonymous Coward () on

    I want it on my firewall ! What about such stats in hatchet ?

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    1. By fuzzyping () jason_NO_SPAM@dixongroup_NO_SPAM.net on http://www.dixongroup.net/hatchet/

      Funny, I can't help but notice how similar this is to Hatchet. I'd love to say "great minds think alike", but I have a hard time comparing myself to Randal.

      I haven't read the article yet, but I'll take a look at it and see what can be incorporated. I'm curious to see how/if he overcame sqlite's typelessness.

      -fp

  2. By Anonymous Coward () on

    Hi,

    nice article. Is there a script out there to do all this network nmonitoring on a plain OBSD box without any packages/ports? I mean everything you need is there (Perl, Apache).

  3. By Anonymous Coward () on

    This sure is a great idea. I was already looking at 3rd party monitoring software to be able to log the bandwidth used by each computer behind an OpenBSD router.

    But this looks really great; everything I need is already there in the default install! (well, except for a database, but my application isn't that big that it requires a full blown db; plain text files are fine)

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