different traffic accounting trafd vs. ipcad

Gleb Smirnoff glebius at cell.sick.ru
Tue Feb 24 06:47:47 PST 2004


  Dear Andre,

On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 03:42:38PM +0100, Andre Rein wrote:
A> I'm running two different accounting programs at the firewall (ipcad &
A> trafd) and it looks like that trafd doesn't account the whole traffic,
A> because the sum of the individual tcp/udp/icmp traffic doesn't match the
A> ipcad accounting.
A> 

  trafd itself is very buggy. I'd better do not trust
its data. Use ipcad, ipacct or ng_ipacct. trafd'd bugginess was discussed a
lot in different russian-speaking mailinglists.

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