Re: internet (without LAN) monthly traffic statistics

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Tony Nelson wrote:
On 09-11-18 09:32:54, Ryan Lynch wrote:
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 09:27, Dj YB <yehielb@xxxxxxx> wrote:
iptraf is really complicated and require too many changes,
vnstat doesn't support the separation using single interface...
any help on this matter will be greatly appreciated.
Cacti is good at this, and I think MRTG can do it, too. But neither of those is simple to set up. I'd give them a try, though, you might do OK.

Depending on exactly what numbers you need, NTop is also a
possibility. It's dead easy to set up, and it's capable of breaking
out separate interfaces. The level of detail will be enormous, but
it's actually (IMHO) much easier/faster to get running than either
Cacti or MRTG.

If you're good with any scripting languages, you might want to
consider just polling the kernel's interface counters, yourself, via a regular 'cron' job. That might not be an option, though, depending on your skill level.

If the problem is sorting out which traffic went through the pay connection, perhaps IPTables could be used. Just an idea...

If the NIC sees all the packets you can get a rough approximation:
 iptables -I INPUT ! -s 10.0.1.0/24  #<- your LAN net address here
 iptables -I OUTPUT ! -s 10.0.1.0/24 #<- and here

run that at the start of the month, then
 iptables -L INPUT -nv | head
 iptables -L OUTPUT -nv | head

would give you the packets and bytes sent to (received from) non-local IP addresses. Ugly, inconvenient, must be started at the beginning of the month, data lost on reboot, all of which you could hack around with clever scripts, but there must be a better way.

The better way is probably MRTG or similar, which are complex to install, then work well and do what you want. I'd skip iptables, it's pretty ugly and high overhead to do right.

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