Per Protocol Traffic Accounting

[Kurt Buff]

Tyler wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm trying to count both in and out traffic on a per-protocol basis. 
> With the ultimate goal of MRTG'ing and recording the amount of traffic
> in and out of the server for each service.  So far, my Googling, and
> mailing list archive searches have not produced a solution.  

Uh, perhaps ntop, bound to the external NIC?

It's a very nice package, and although it doesn't provide 'accounting' as
such, it's a very nice tool for understanding who is talking to whom, on
what protocol.