Re: count traffic of web services OT

From: Brad Olin (bwo_at_bwo1.com)
Date: 08/21/03 

Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 17:52:17 GMT

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 14:34:24 +0200, "alex"
<ntnewsNOSPAM@hrz3.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de> wrote:

>hi
>
>but this variants are only logfile based... thats not the real traffic! the
>bwacct version is based on iptable counters and therefor counts every
>byte... and not - only delivered webpages.
>
>
Sorry for the continued OT post guys, but life just isn't perfect. :)

Interesting. Please entertain me a second and let me ask a couple of
dummy questions.

1) What is the runtime overhead with this package? Does it poll the
iptable counters at some reasonable period? Or does it assume I never
reset the counters with any other applications that are running?

2) How does it deal with virtual hosting where you have 10 or 12 domains
all served from the same ip address? As you know, arin insists that the
only time you need a dedicated ip per domain is if that domain requires
a secure SSL site also.

3) Does it also report on ftp traffic to/from the html content storage
servers? This question assumes the content, and ftp access, is stored
on separate systems than the httpd servers.

I ask these questions as these are configurations that some of my
customers are using. If it looks promising I will budget some time to
look at the code.

Thanks in advance
Brad 

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