bwm-tools-tech — General & Technical Discussion

[bwm-tools-tech] Graphing Traffic

[Adam M. T. <ad...@co...>]

Thanks to all for your help in getting this up and running for me. Now I
have some technical questions involving the graphing portion. As stated
in an earlier post, I am trying to graph voip traffic over our network
to see what kind of usage we're running into. All I need is bandwidth
usage in bytes for any given time period. Nigel tells me this is
possible. I set up my config file as follows:

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<firewall>

  <global>

    <modules>

      <load name=3D"ip_queue"/>

    </modules>

    <class name=3D"voip_traffic">

      <address name=3D"voip_dst" proto=3D"udp" src-port=3D"10000:20000" =
/>

    </class>

  </global>

  <traffic>

    <flow name=3D"voip_traffic_out" report-timeout=3D"60">

    voip_traffic

    </flow>

  </traffic>

</firewall>

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Question one starts here. Is it ok for me to use the standard symbol for
specifying a range of ports like that? (10000:20000) If that's not
correct, is there another way to go about doing this? I'd rather not go
through and write an <address> for each port from 10000 to 20000. :-)

Question two is "what am I doing wrong?" because this isn't working.
"bwmd" loads, but there is no output to any log files even though I have
"report-timeout" specified. I don't want to do any sort of limiting of
this traffic; I just want to log it.

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If you have any suggestions on what I can change to make this work,
they'd be very much appreciated. If I can't get bwm_tools to do what I'm
looking for, I have no other ideas on how to accomplish this. Thanks!

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Adam Towarnyckyj

RE: [bwm-tools-tech] Shared object file problem

[Adam M. T. <ad...@co...>]

Thank you very much. You helped me find out that for some reason it was
looking in /usr/lib for the libraries. I recompiled with a -prefix this
time and that seemed to solve it. That is very strange though because
when I ran make install last time, it said the libraries were put in
/usr/local/lib so I assumed the prefix was already /usr/local/. Oh well.
Thanks again!

Adam

-----Original Message-----
From: go0ogl3 [mailto:go...@gm...]=20
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 11:54 PM
To: Adam M. Towarnyckyj
Cc: bwm...@li...
Subject: Re: [bwm-tools-tech] Shared object file problem

Well I'm not an specialist but did you run a strace with it and see
what is looking for? Maybe is searching the library somewhere else.

That's only my ideea...


On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 17:54:10 -0700, Adam M. Towarnyckyj
<ad...@co...> wrote:
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> Well, it looks like I finally got on to the list. J
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> I tried your advice and it worked great. Thank you. Now I'm running
into a
> completely separate problem which I can't seem to find an answer to.
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> After "./configure", "make", "make install", I can't get bwm_firewall
or
> bwm_graph to run at all. I get this error:
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> bwm_firewall: error while loading shared libraries: libbwm.1: cannot
open
> shared object file: No such file or directory
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> Oddly enough, my library path is correct and the libraries are in
their
> proper directory.
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> Any ideas? Thanks!
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> Adam Towarnyckyj

Re: [bwm-tools-tech] Shared object file problem

[go0ogl3 <go...@gm...>]

Well I'm not an specialist but did you run a strace with it and see
what is looking for? Maybe is searching the library somewhere else.

That's only my ideea...


On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 17:54:10 -0700, Adam M. Towarnyckyj
<ad...@co...> wrote:
> 
> 
> Well, it looks like I finally got on to the list. J
> 
>  
> 
> I tried your advice and it worked great. Thank you. Now I'm running into a
> completely separate problem which I can't seem to find an answer to.
> 
> After "./configure", "make", "make install", I can't get bwm_firewall or
> bwm_graph to run at all. I get this error:
> 
> bwm_firewall: error while loading shared libraries: libbwm.1: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or directory
> 
>  
> 
> Oddly enough, my library path is correct and the libraries are in their
> proper directory.
> 
> Any ideas? Thanks!
> 
>  
> 
> Adam Towarnyckyj

[bwm-tools-tech] Shared object file problem

[Adam M. T. <ad...@co...>]

Well, it looks like I finally got on to the list. :-)

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I tried your advice and it worked great. Thank you. Now I'm running into
a completely separate problem which I can't seem to find an answer to.

After "./configure", "make", "make install", I can't get bwm_firewall or
bwm_graph to run at all. I get this error:

bwm_firewall: error while loading shared libraries: libbwm.1: cannot
open shared object file: No such file or directory

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Oddly enough, my library path is correct and the libraries are in their
proper directory.

Any ideas? Thanks!

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Adam Towarnyckyj

[bwm-tools-tech] Re: bwm tools 0.1.8

[Nigel K. <nk...@lb...>]

could you try the latest snapshot on sourceforge?

Regards
Nigel

Julian Pena wrote:

> Hi Nigel
>
>
>
> I'm trying to install the bwm-0.1.8 on a Red Hat 8.0 system, but when
> I running the configure script I receive this:
>
>
>
> checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
>
> *checking** for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0... no*
>
> **** Could not run GLIB test program, checking why...*
>
> **** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file
> config.log for the*
>
> **** exact error that occured. This usually means GLIB is incorrectly
> installed.*
>
> checking for xml2-config... /usr/bin/xml2-config
>
> checking for libxml - version >= 2.0.0... yes (version 2.4.23)
>
> configure: creating ./config.status
>
> config.status: creating Makefile
>
> config.status: creating lib/Makefile
>
> config.status: creating bwm_firewall/Makefile
>
> config.status: creating bwm_graph/Makefile
>
> config.status: creating bwmd/Makefile
>
> config.status: creating bwm_monitor/Makefile
>
> config.status: creating config.h
>
> config.status: config.h is unchanged
>
> config.status: executing depfiles commands
>
>
>
> When I check the RPM packages for the GLIB I get this:
>
>
>
> [root@aduana bwm_tools-0.1.8]# rpm -qa | grep glib
>
> glibc-kernheaders-2.4-7.20
>
> glib2-2.2.3-1.1
>
> glib-1.2.10-8
>
> glibc-2.3.2-4.80.8
>
> glibc-common-2.3.2-4.80.8
>
> glibc-devel-2.3.2-4.80.8
>
>
>
>
>
> Seems to have the correct version of the GLIB2 and XML2 packages, so
> do you know what could be happening?
>
>
>
>
>
> Any comments would be great, Thanks
>
>
>
> Julián Peña
>

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[bwm-tools-tech] Re: Bandwidth Management

[Nigel K. <nk...@lb...>]

Adam M. Towarnyckyj wrote:

>             I apologize for having to email you directly, but it seems
> there is a problem with the bwm mailing list. I tried to subscribe and
> haven't gotten any sort of confirmation email even though it says it
> was sent. I figured the direct approach might work.
>
no problem

strange.... sourceforge reports no problems

>             I am looking for a program that would be able to graph
> traffic statistics of VOIP activity. After much searching online, the
> only free software I could come up with was ntop and your bwm. (If you
> know of anything better, please share.) I figured all I needed to
> monitor was traffic on ports 5060 and 5061 and this is easily
> accomplished with your program. Ntop had too many bugs and caused a
> lot of hassle I'd rather not get into.
>
bwm tools can do this easily.

>             My problem is that on configuration of bwm, it yells at me
> about glib 2.2.0 even though the rpm is installed.
>
do you have glib-2.2.0 devel package(s) installed? this is probably what
its complaining about

> I run on Redhat 9.0 and couldn't find anyone with this same problem on
> the mailing list for the latest version of bwm.
>
best version to use is the current snapshot (development version), its
proven to be quite stable and addresses fixes for alot of bugs and problems.

> The thing is, when I do an rpm -qa and grep out glib, it shows I have
> the old glib 1.2 installed and the new glib installed only the new
> glib is glib2.
>
they should work happily together

> After rummaging through your configure script, I noticed you are using
> pkg-config to determine what glib is running. Would the fact that it
> is named glib2 have anything to do with my problem?
>
nope... its probably after the development libraries and headers, most
problably package  glib2-devel-2.2.0*.rpm?

> Uninstalling glib 1.2 won't work for there are too many dependencies
> on the box already. I really hate Linux and am a BSD user myself, but
> the kernel options for packet filtering on linux were just too good
> compared to the BSD options so I had to choose linux. I also tried
> downloading and compiling the source for glib 2.0 which didn't work at
> all either.
>
try install the development libraries  :-)

>             Do you have any suggestions you could offer? It would help
> me greatly and would be much appreciated.
>
as per above, hope it helps!

-Nigel

Re: [bwm-tools-tech] Re-2: Problem with Integration the bwm-tools

[Nigel K. <nk...@lb...>]

Hi Ralph,

> thanks for the fast answer.

no problem

>
> Ok, now it works and i can create a iptable. smile.
>

perfect!

> But i have the next problem and hope you have another tip for me.
>
> My problem is, i can't integrate the bwm iptables with the
> SuseFirewall2 iptables.
> The SuseFirewall2 don't accept the change from bwm-tools.
> When i try to integrate the bwm_tools rules, the SuseFirewall2 give me
> many errors.
> So, why i know, that the SuseFirewall is not the best, i cancel it.
>

I doubt susefirewall would understand the configuration file that
bwm_tools creates, there is a section in the manual about bwmtools
integration, please check it out at  http://bwm-tools.pr.linuxrulz.org/

Integration would probably have to be done manually, but then again it
depends what you want to use bwmtools for, if its just bandwidth
control... check the manual above out. If you need includes firewalling,
you will have to use bwmtools to generate your firewall OR another
application, 2 firewall generation applications wouldn't work too nicely
together/

> In the moment i create with the fwbuilder (www.fwbuilder.org
> <http://www.fwbuilder.org>) my own firewall.
> Think it is not the problem and a very better firewall.
> And it is Suse Supported, so i can better integrated in the distro as
> the bwm_firewall. (i think so)
>
> Now i hope you know the fwbuilder and have a little tip, where i must
> integrate the bwm_tools
> iptables !? (And i must not search so long ;-) ! )
>

Check the manual for how to integrate bwmtools  :-)

Regards
-Nigel

> Thanks.
>
> Bye for now
>
> Ralph
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>     Original Message
>     	
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>     Subject:
>     	Re: Problem with Integration the bwm-tools (18-Feb-2005 6:53)
>     From:
>     	nk...@lb... <mailto:nk...@lb...>
>     To:
>     	ral...@ra...
>     <mailto:ral...@ra...>
>
>
>     ral...@ra... wrote:
>
>>     Hello from Germany,
>
>     Hello from South Africa!
>
>>
>>     OK ... install from bwm-tools with ../configure, make and make
>>     install was no problem.
>>     Then i create a firewall.xml file and make with
>>     "bwm_firewall -c /etc/bwm_tools/firewall.xml -o
>>     /etc/bwm_tools/bwmfile" an outputfile.
>
>     cool....
>
>>     Now i want create with " bwm_firewall -f" the iptables file.
>>     But the result is
>>     bwm_firewall -f
>>     Loading configuration from /etc/bwm_tools/firewall.xml
>>     Writing IPTables configuration to "sysconfig/iptables"...
>>     Failed to open file "sysconfig/iptables": No such file or directory.
>>
>
>     Ok.... here.... can you upgrade to the latest development
>     snapshot, and run this...
>
>     bwm_firewall -c /etc/bwm_tools/firewall.xml -l
>
>     that will load the bwm_tools firewall, or the following to pump it
>     to stdout for use in with iptables-restore
>
>     bwm_firewall -c /etc/bwm_tools/firewall.xml >
>     /path/to/iptables-restore-file
>
>>     After this i search the iptables and find them under
>>     /usr/lib/iptables.
>>     Think it is a special from Suse Linux 9.2.
>>
>
>     This is the binary, I'm not sure if your distro restores the
>     firewall on reboot, if so it would normally use iptables-restore
>     and have a file with the output of iptables-save which infact is
>     the same as what the command above outputs to stdout.
>
>>     Now my question, what can i do, that the bwm-tools find my iptables.
>>     Or must i have a different configuration or installation from the
>>     bwm_tools.
>>
>
>     as per above
>
>     Regards
>     Nigel
>
>--
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>(Chief Executive Officer)
>Linux Based Systems Design
>Web: www.lbsd.net          Email: nk...@lb...
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Re: [bwm-tools-tech] Re-2: Problem with Integration the bwm-tools

[Kobe L. <Ko...@pu...>]

Hello,

    This is fairly easy, and I explained it on my site 
(www.murder4al.be). But in short it comes to this.
    - You must adapt your existing firewall to redirect all 'allowed' 
traffic to the bwmd chain (by hand or by patching the generating 
script). Usually it is simply send to 'ACCEPT' target.
    - This chain must send everything to the QUEUE target (which is the 
bwmd deamon)
    - To add your bwmd firewall settings to your existing (loaded) 
ruleset use --noflush option of iptables-load

    As I recall fwbuilder creates a static script, so can easy adapt it 
to you needs and merge it (dynamically via the --noflush) with your 
bwmd-firewall script

Good luck
Kobe


ral...@ra... wrote:

> Good Morning Nigel,
>  
> thanks for the fast answer.
>  
> Ok, now it works and i can create a iptable. smile.
>  
> But i have the next problem and hope you have another tip for me.
>  
> My problem is, i can't integrate the bwm iptables with the 
> SuseFirewall2 iptables.
> The SuseFirewall2 don't accept the change from bwm-tools.
> When i try to integrate the bwm_tools rules, the SuseFirewall2 give me 
> many errors.
> So, why i know, that the SuseFirewall is not the best, i cancel it.
>  
> In the moment i create with the fwbuilder (www.fwbuilder.org 
> <http://www.fwbuilder.org>) my own firewall.
> Think it is not the problem and a very better firewall.
> And it is Suse Supported, so i can better integrated in the distro as 
> the bwm_firewall. (i think so)
>  
> Now i hope you know the fwbuilder and have a little tip, where i must 
> integrate the bwm_tools
> iptables !? (And i must not search so long ;-) ! )
>  
> Thanks.
>  
> Bye for now
>  
> Ralph
>  
>  
>  
>  
>  
>  
>  
>
>     Original Message      
>     	
>     * processed by Tobit InfoCenter* 
>     Subject: 
>     	Re: Problem with Integration the bwm-tools (18-Feb-2005 6:53)
>     From:    
>     	nk...@lb... <mailto:nk...@lb...>
>     To:      
>     	ral...@ra...
>     <mailto:ral...@ra...>
>
>      
>     ral...@ra... wrote:
>
>>     Hello from Germany,
>
>     Hello from South Africa!
>
>>      
>>     OK ... install from bwm-tools with ../configure, make and make
>>     install was no problem.
>>     Then i create a firewall.xml file and make with
>>     "bwm_firewall -c /etc/bwm_tools/firewall.xml -o
>>     /etc/bwm_tools/bwmfile" an outputfile.
>
>     cool....
>
>>     Now i want create with " bwm_firewall -f" the iptables file.
>>     But the result is
>>     bwm_firewall -f
>>     Loading configuration from /etc/bwm_tools/firewall.xml
>>     Writing IPTables configuration to "sysconfig/iptables"...
>>     Failed to open file "sysconfig/iptables": No such file or directory.
>>      
>
>     Ok.... here.... can you upgrade to the latest development
>     snapshot, and run this...
>
>     bwm_firewall -c /etc/bwm_tools/firewall.xml -l
>
>     that will load the bwm_tools firewall, or the following to pump it
>     to stdout for use in with iptables-restore
>
>     bwm_firewall -c /etc/bwm_tools/firewall.xml >
>     /path/to/iptables-restore-file
>
>>     After this i search the iptables and find them under
>>     /usr/lib/iptables.
>>     Think it is a special from Suse Linux 9.2.
>>      
>
>     This is the binary, I'm not sure if your distro restores the
>     firewall on reboot, if so it would normally use iptables-restore
>     and have a file with the output of iptables-save which infact is
>     the same as what the command above outputs to stdout.
>
>>     Now my question, what can i do, that the bwm-tools find my iptables.
>>     Or must i have a different configuration or installation from the
>>     bwm_tools.
>>      
>
>     as per above
>
>     Regards
>     Nigel
>
>--
>Nigel Kukard, PhD CompSc
>(Chief Executive Officer)
>Linux Based Systems Design
>Web: www.lbsd.net          Email: nk...@lb...
>Tel: (+27) 023 349 8000     Cell: (+27) 082 333 3723
>Fax: (+27) 023 349 1395  Support: 086 747 7600
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>                  what you want to use it for.
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>    
>
>
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>     bwm...@li...
>     bwm...@li...

[bwm-tools-tech] Re: I don't find firewall.xml.

[Nigel K. <nk...@lb...>]

Check the doc/example.xml  file, also in the newest development snapshot
there is a manual explaining the configuration file in detail and how to
edit/write your own.

The manual is also on the bwmtoos site... http://bwm-tools.pr.linuxrulz.org/

Regards
Nigel

Hossein Noshin wrote:

>Hi Nigel and others!
>
>Finally I managed to install BWM-Tools.
>But I don't find firewall.xml file to start my configuration.
>
>The file didn't lcated in /etc/bwm_tools/firewall.xml
>I can't find it either by "locate" or "whereis" commands.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Thanx!
>
>Hossein
>
>

--
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[bwm-tools-tech] Re-2: Problem with Integration the bwm-tools

[<ral...@ra...>]

Good Morning Nigel,

thanks for the fast answer.

Ok, now it works and i can create a iptable. smile.

But i have the next problem and hope you have another tip for me.

My problem is, i can't integrate the bwm iptables with the SuseFirewall2 iptables.
The SuseFirewall2 don't accept the change from bwm-tools. 
When i try to integrate the bwm_tools rules, the SuseFirewall2 give me many errors.
So, why i know, that the SuseFirewall is not the best, i cancel it.

In the moment i create with the fwbuilder (www.fwbuilder.org) my own firewall.
Think it is not the problem and a very better firewall.
And it is Suse Supported, so i can better integrated in the distro as the bwm_firewall. (i think so)

Now i hope you know the fwbuilder and have a little tip, where i must integrate the bwm_tools
iptables !? (And i must not search so long ;-) ! )

Thanks.

Bye for now

Ralph







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Subject: Re: Problem with Integration the bwm-tools (18-Feb-2005 6:53)
From:    nk...@lb...
To:      ral...@ra...


ral...@ra... wrote: 
Hello from Germany,
Hello from South Africa!


OK ... install from bwm-tools with ../configure, make and make install was no problem.
Then i create a firewall.xml file and make with
"bwm_firewall -c /etc/bwm_tools/firewall.xml -o /etc/bwm_tools/bwmfile" an outputfile.
cool....

Now i want create with " bwm_firewall -f" the iptables file.
But the result is 
bwm_firewall -f
Loading configuration from /etc/bwm_tools/firewall.xml
Writing IPTables configuration to "sysconfig/iptables"...
Failed to open file "sysconfig/iptables": No such file or directory.

Ok.... here.... can you upgrade to the latest development snapshot, and run this...

bwm_firewall -c /etc/bwm_tools/firewall.xml -l

that will load the bwm_tools firewall, or the following to pump it to stdout for use in with iptables-restore

bwm_firewall -c /etc/bwm_tools/firewall.xml > /path/to/iptables-restore-file

After this i search the iptables and find them under /usr/lib/iptables.
Think it is a special from Suse Linux 9.2.

This is the binary, I'm not sure if your distro restores the firewall on reboot, if so it would normally use iptables-restore and have a file with the output of iptables-save which infact is the same as what the command above outputs to stdout.

Now my question, what can i do, that the bwm-tools find my iptables.
Or must i have a different configuration or installation from the bwm_tools.

as per above

Regards
Nigel

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Re: [bwm-tools-tech] I cannot compile BWM.

[Kobe L. <Ko...@pu...>]

Have you tried the explicit

  --with-rrdtool=PFX   Prefix where rrdtool is installed (optional)
  --with-rrdtool-libraries=DIR   Directory where the rrdtool library is 
installed (optional)
  --with-rrdtool-includes=DIR   Directory where the rrdtool header files 
are installed (optional)

config options?

This has to do with the rrd.h file wich the configure script can't find, 
make sure it is in you path.

Greetz
Kobe


Hossein Noshin wrote:

>Hi Nigel and others!
>
>Can you help me? I am totally lost.
> 
> 
>I am trying to install BWM tool on  Fedora Core 3 OS but I am getting one error.
>I have see many posts on mailing list but can not find right solution.
>
>I am getting error:
>
>checking for rrd_create in -lrrd... no
>
>* - ERROR -
>* You need the development libraries and headers
>* for rrdtool. Normally you can download a
>* package called rrdtool-devel for your
>* distribution, install it and everything should
>* be fine
>*
>* Alternatively, follow these instructions...
>* 1. Download, uncompress and extract rrdtool to the top BWM Tools directory
>* 2. Symlink it, like this ->   ln -s rrdtool-x.x.x rrdtool
>* 3. Re-run ./configure with ->   --with-rrdtool-source
>
>I have followed the instructions, no help. I have also followed your
>instructions:
>1.I enable shared libraries by command  sh configure --enable-shared
>2.I wrote /usr/local/lib into /etc/ld.so.conf  
>Neither options worked!
>
>I am out of hope, I really don't know what to do. Can you help me?
>
>Thanks!
>
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[bwm-tools-tech] I cannot compile BWM.

[Hossein N. <hos...@gm...>]

Hi Nigel and others!

Can you help me? I am totally lost.
 
 
I am trying to install BWM tool on  Fedora Core 3 OS but I am getting one error.
I have see many posts on mailing list but can not find right solution.

I am getting error:

checking for rrd_create in -lrrd... no

* - ERROR -
* You need the development libraries and headers
* for rrdtool. Normally you can download a
* package called rrdtool-devel for your
* distribution, install it and everything should
* be fine
*
* Alternatively, follow these instructions...
* 1. Download, uncompress and extract rrdtool to the top BWM Tools directory
* 2. Symlink it, like this ->   ln -s rrdtool-x.x.x rrdtool
* 3. Re-run ./configure with ->   --with-rrdtool-source

I have followed the instructions, no help. I have also followed your
instructions:
1.I enable shared libraries by command  sh configure --enable-shared
2.I wrote /usr/local/lib into /etc/ld.so.conf  
Neither options worked!

I am out of hope, I really don't know what to do. Can you help me?

Thanks!

[bwm-tools-tech] Announce: Bandwidth Management Tools v200501101456

[Nigel K. <nk...@lb...>]

Changes:
* Documentation on how to use bwm tools was added!!
* The usage information of various utilities was fixed up.
* bwm_graph now generates rrd files, and optionally generates graphs.
* bwm_firewall can now pump a firewall directly into iptables-restore.
* Usage has changed for nearly all of the commands; refer to
./command_name --help for more details.
* iptables counters are optionally reset.
* More exact versions were added to the bwm tools requirements.

Website:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/bwmtools/

[bwm-tools-tech] (no subject)

[Doron W. <do...@do...>]

confirm 106461

[bwm-tools-tech] Beta Release - 200412292047

[Nigel K. <nk...@lb...>]

Hi Guys,

After much work on the underlying formula's used to calculate bandwidth 
rates in BWM Tools, I am glad to release a beta version.

This version should make it impossible for maximum rates to be exceeded. 
The entire formula has been re-written and should now be alot more 
accurate than before.

Hopefully in a few weeks we will have a larger team of developers 
dedicated to improving BWM Tools... news will follow!

We have a re-vamped website  http://bwm-tools.lbsd.net  along with an 
online SVN repository  http://svn.linuxrulz.org

Enjoy!

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[bwm-tools-tech] Re: Error while compling BWM tool

[Nigel K. <nk...@lb...>]

Prajay Sharma wrote:

>  
>Dear Nigel.
>
>
>Will you pls help me ?????
>  
>
no prob  :-)

>I installed BWM tool on  Red Hat 9 but I am getting one error pls help me I have seen so many posts on mailing list but can not find right solution.
>
>I am gettin error
>checking for rrd_create in -lrrd... no
>  checking for rrd_update in -lrrd... no
>  Error: Working librrd required
>
>Awaiting your favourable reply.
>
>Prajay
>
>  
>
try download the rrdtool sources, untargz it, type   ./configure 
--help   check how to enable shared libraries, i think its   --enable-shared
type   make
type  make install


make sure /etc/ld.so.conf  contains /usr/local/lib
type   ldconfig


try reconfigure bwm-tools

it seems some distro's don't include shared libraries for rrdtool... 
stupid if u ask me, bwm-tools uses rrdtool to generate funky looking 
graphs for traffic utilization.


let me know if you have any problems

-Nigel

[bwm-tools-tech] error while configure bwm

[Prajay S. <sha...@re...>]

 =A0=0ADear Friends.=0A=0AI have downloaded Bwm tools for bandwidth managem=
ent but while configuring I am getting error=0A=0Achecking for rrd_create i=
n -lrrd... no=0A checking for rrd_update in -lrrd... no=0A Error: Working l=
ibrrd required=0APls help=0A=0AThanks.=0A=0A=0A=0A

Re: [bwm-tools-tech] query

[Nigel K. <nk...@lb...>]

Your rrdtool must be compiled to include the shared library.

Plz refer to the mailing list archives for solutions. If you don't come 
right let me know.



Regards
Nigel Kukard


ja...@mi... wrote:

>Dear Sir,
>
>I am trying to install the bwm_tools-0.1.8 in my linux system. during the
>./configure i am getting an error working librrd required . i installed
>the
>rrdtool-1.0.49 .
>
>
>But still i'm getting the error.
>
>Could you please help to install the bwm software in my system.
>
>Thanks & Regards,
>S.Jakir Rehman
>
>  
>

[bwm-tools-tech] query

[<ja...@mi...>]

Dear Sir,

I am trying to install the bwm_tools-0.1.8 in my linux system. during the
./configure i am getting an error working librrd required . i installed
the
rrdtool-1.0.49 .


But still i'm getting the error.

Could you please help to install the bwm software in my system.

Thanks & Regards,
S.Jakir Rehman

[bwm-tools-tech] (no subject)

[Zeb B. <ze...@co...>]

confirm 844682

Re: [bwm-tools-tech] Error when configure

[Nigel K. <nk...@lb...>]

Hi Ketut,
=20
> checking for rrd_create in -lrrd... no
> checking for rrd_update in -lrrd... no
> Error: Working librrd required
>=20
> would you help me ?

You basically need to have the librrd.so library installed so bwm_tools
can link against it. If you check the rrdtool ./configure options there
is an option to build the librrd.so shared library.

Regards
Nigel Kukard

[bwm-tools-tech] Error when configure

[I K. N. [dxg] <ket...@de...>]

Dear ,

please help me, when compile some error :

checking for rrd_create in -lrrd... no
checking for rrd_update in -lrrd... no
Error: Working librrd required

would you help me ?

thank you.

regards,
ketut

[bwm-tools-tech] enquiry

[ait c. k. <ac...@ho...>]

hi
I have tried to install bwmtool-0.1.8 but it stops and return the following 
message
checking for rrd_create in -lrrd... no
checking for rrd_update in -lrrd... no
Error: Working librrd required
I have then installed rrdtool-1.0.49 with sharing enabled and i have put the 
path
/usr/local/rrdtool-1.0.49/lib in the Id.so.config however the problem 
persisted .. can you please tell me how to resolve this problem
thanx

lefleb

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Re: [bwm-tools-tech] bwm_tools features

[Nigel K. <nk...@lb...>]

> >> 2. If i update settings in firewall.xml, and then add the new iptables
> >>    rules by hand, will bwmd manage the new traffic flow without
> >> restarting
> >>    the process? This is quite essencial, as i am working for a small i=
sp
> >>    and we cant down the uplink every time we need to manage another
> >> traffic
> >>    flow..
> >>
> >
> > bwmd needs to be restarted and iptables reloaded, this doesn't seem to
> > be much impact though... we run about 155Mbps of internet traffic and
> > sometimes reload & restart iptables & bwmd. tcp seems to recover nicely.
> >
>=20
> So you have a script for this?
> What do you mean to reload iptables? Wouldn't it be enough to just add the
> new MARK rules(i'm only talking about adding new classes and traffic
> flows) ? :)
>=20
>


basically we use iptables-restore to reload our firewall... sure you can
add -j MARK in a script to add it, no problem at all.

bwmd has to be restarted though to load the new flow data


Regards
Nigel