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Traff - Traffic Accounting Program
Version 0.7
WHAT IS IT?
Traff is a program that attaches itself to one or more network interfaces,
sniffs all IP-packages passing at it and accounts each packets size. The collected
information can be dumped to a mysql-Database, for further processing.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
The whole thing about Traff, is that you can specify for what IP you want to account
the traffic, and even for what IPs talking with which peer. This means, that if you
have a big up-link and you want to discover how much each or some hosts on your network
are using this up-link, you can do that without caring about the other IP, as other
programs do. So much less data will be stored at your database.
The program runs as a daemon and periodically will dump all information collected to the
database, syslog or a file.
UPDATE
Update-information can be found in file UPDATE
INSTALLATION / PRECONDITIONS
The script is being developed under Debian running kernel 2.6.x, but it should run on different
kernel versions and different distributions. You must pay attention if you compile your kernel.
keep in mind that the option CONFIG_PACKET must be compiled in. Generally, if tcpdump works, Traff
should work as well.
What you will need is pcap- and optionally Mysql- and PgSQL- libraries and header files to compile Traff.
If all preconditions are met you can begin by
1. Unpacking the sources
2. Run ./configure -- you may want to run ./configure --help to enable options: --enable-mysql --enable-postgresql
5. Type make install
Make install will copy binary files to /usr/local/bin. If you don like this, edit
the Makefile or install manually.
6. Change the configuration-file /etc/traff.conf to suit to your needs
7. Start traff.
8. -Optionally-
There is a initd-script for traff called traff.initd. This script was intended to run
on Debian systems. You my need to change it if you use another distribution. With this script
you can configure you system to start traff at boot-time. Please remember to start traff only
_after_ you set up your network.
BUGS/UPDATES
Please report any bugs directly to me via email. Updates and new versions can be obtained
at the projects repository at sourceforge.net.
For the very new versions use the CVS-Versions. Information about this can also be obtained at
the projects repository at sourceforge.net.
CONTRIBUTIONS
Contributions are welcome. Please sent to to us via email.
TODO
- Test it and see if it works correctly :)
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2001 - Hans Marcus Krüger <hanskruger@iname.com>,
Matthew Dormer <mdormat@users.sourceforge.com>
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
The authors can be reached via email addresses above
