Re: [Mldonkey-users] Re: Idea: limiting the port rnage mldonkey uses

[Goswin Brederlow]

Nacho Ruiz <address@hidden> writes:

>   Thanks for the reply Carl,
> 
> On jue, 20 feb 2003, address@hidden wrote:
> >  Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 06:13:07PM +0100, Nacho Ruiz wrote:
> > >   And there is any way to monitor the traffic in K/s ?
> > > 
> > 
> > The short answer is to use the mldonkey monitor itself.
> > It isn't entirely accurate, but it does give a feel for the raw
> > upload and download traffic.
> > 
> 
>   which monitor? vd command?
> 
> > A second way to do this (Linux) is to use iptraf.  It will also
> > show miscellaneous traffic (like mldonkey queue chatter).
> > 
> > A third is to count raw packets and bytes using iptables
> > chain counters.  This is the technique advocated in the
> > previous email.  If you send all of the edonkey traffic
> > (matched by port, or by packet owner) to a dummy iptables chain,
> > the chain will do all of the work by keeping an internal count.
> > 
> 
>   I tried this, but the internal count isn't accumulative? I want to know 
>   the actual transfer rate, to pass the results to, i.e., mrtg.

Use the example scripts provided with mrtg to account iptables rules.

MfG
        Goswin