<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Ben,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My immediate input is that your question is a bit general.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please narrow it down.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">—Stuart</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 9, 2015, at 11:38 PM, Benjamin Schweikert <<a href="mailto:ben@beert.de" class="">ben@beert.de</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" class=""><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif" class="">
<!-- html ignored --><!-- head ignored --><!-- meta ignored --><!-- node type 8 --><!-- node type 8 --><!-- node type 8 --><p class="">Dear list,</p>
<div class="">I got a question on how to do this best. I wrote a (bash) script which executed every minute collects the traffic to and from external for each ip address and also calculates the overall traffic. The is based on iptables and based on the arp table. So every time the script es executed it checks what ips are available. A typical output would be something like this:</div>
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<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">2015.04.01-19:30:01 192.168.2.1 0 0 28035 76</div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">2015.04.01-19:30:01 192.168.1.100 481 658 161480 131296</div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">2015.04.01-19:30:01 192.168.0.8 28 109 102670 13092</div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">2015.04.01-19:30:01 192.168.0.2 1366 29443 1340488 1767049</div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">2015.04.01-19:30:02 192.168.0.1 0 0 0 0</div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">2015.04.01-19:30:02 192.168.0.4 0 0 0 0</div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">2015.04.01-19:30:02 188.193.78.254 0 0</div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">2015.04.01-19:30:02 192.168.1.106 45 28 27471 1731</div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">2015.04.01-19:30:02 192.168.1.101 0 0 24662 0</div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">2015.04.01-19:30:03 192.168.0.9 5 8 25732 1108</div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">2015.04.01-19:30:03 192.168.0.3 0 0 0 0</div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">2015.04.01-19:30:03 192.168.0.5 0 0 0 0</div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">2015.04.01-19:30:03 192.168.1.107 0 0 0 0</div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">2015.04.01-19:30:04 192.168.0.176 0 0 3799 102</div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">2015.04.01-19:30:04 192.168.0.7 0 0 11845 0</div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">2015.04.01-19:30:04 192.168.2.2 0 0 0 0</div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">2015.04.01-19:30:04 ALL 1925 30246 1726182 1914454</div>
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<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">$IP $UP $DOWN $TOTALUP $TOTALDOWN [bytes]</div>
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<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">What do you suggest to include this in collectd because I want to use a gui like CGP to visualize it. Currently I am creating my own rrd graphs but the rrd files are not compatible with the iptables plugin.</div>
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<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">Thanks for the help.</div>
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<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">Best regards</div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">Ben</div>
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