Re: date stuff


Subject: Re: date stuff
From: Chris Hamilton (chris@digitalalaska.com)
Date: Mon Apr 22 2002 - 12:23:41 AKDT


Arthur, is there any way that I can get a direct link into your gray matter?

The "ipchains -L -v" looks like it could be good for me.

Thanks.

Chris.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Arthur Corliss" <arthur@corlissfamily.org>
To: "Chris Hamilton" <chris@digitalalaska.com>; <aklug@aklug.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 5:55 PM
Subject: Re: date stuff

> > What I'm trying to do is grab usage data for an interface and stick
> > the data into a file. This is all in a bash script. I'm working on
> > this so I can collect usage on an IPCop box. So far I have
> > something that looks like this.
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> > DTE=`date +%y%m%d`.raw
> > DTEa=`date +%y%m%d`.stats
> > ifconfig eth0 > $DTE
> > grep 'RX bytes' $DTE > $DTEa
> > rm $DTE -f
> > exit 0
>
> Why not just chain them:
>
> ifconfig eth0 | grep -E [RT]X > `date +%y%m%d`.stats
>
> which will alleviate using a temp file (or too many variables).
>
> > >From here I want to reformat the $DTEa file so that it clearly displays
> > usage for RX and TX. Then eventually I want to build a cgi
> > interface that will display all this stuff through a web browser. I
> > admit it's not the most elegant thing ever created, but it's a great
> > learning tool for me.
>
> BTW, the modification I made to grep above will capture both RX & TX
lines.
> What you have above will only catch RX lines.
>
> > Arthur, I have searched for info on IP accounting with ipchains and
> > iptables, but the man pages don't say much and Google has too much
> > (but not enough specifics).
>
> Basic accounting is kept for all chains and rules. To see that data, just
do:
>
> iptables -L -v
>
> Verbose modes will report that (first two columns are packets and bytes
for
> the rules). Set a few rules (even just ACCEPT rules, if you're not doing
any
> filtering), and grep/awk the data as necessary. :-)
>
> --
>
> --Arthur Corliss
> Bolverk's Lair -- http://arthur.corlissfamily.org/
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>
>
>

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