Re: low overhead packet capturing on linux

[Alexander Clouter]

Thomas Fjellstrom <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
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