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-A debian
package that claims
to be
for performing
ip accounting. News at 11
.
+ipac is a
package which is designed
to gather, summarize and nicely
+output the __IP ac__counting data. ipac make summaries and graphs as ascii
+text and/or gif images with graphs.
+
+
+ipac...
+* is
for Linux
+* runs on top of the ipfwadm or ipchains tool
+* needs certain kernel parts compiled in
+* only supports ipchains based kernels (it has a big brother for iptables [ipac-ng])
+
+Note: linux kernel 2.2 used ipchains, 2.4 uses iptables.
+
+HOW DOES IT WORK?
+
+ ipac consists of two scripts (shell and perl) and one C program:
+
+ - ipacset reads a configuration file and sets up
ip accounting
+ for the kernel using ipfwadm or ipchains
+
+ - fetchipac, executed from cron once in a while, reads
+ the current ip accounting data assembled by the kernel
+ and writes it to a new file
+
+
+
+ - ipacsum summarizes the data from a set of files and, optionally,
+ replaces these files by one
. It displays the values as a simple
+ table containing the sums, as png graph pictures or as ascii graph
+ pictures
.
+
+----
+Part of [CategoryNetworking]
