Re: [webmin-l] Re: bandwidth monitoring and shorewall - was: Re: [webmin-l] Debian Sarge Webmin

[Patrick E. <mai...@pa...>]

On Mon, 04 Apr 2005 06:04:36 +0200, Jamie Cameron <jca...@we...>  
wrote:

> On 4/Apr/2005 11:19 Patrick Erler wrote ..
>> On Mon, 04 Apr 2005 02:06:49 +0200, Jamie Cameron <jca...@we...>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 06:09, Patrick Erler wrote:
>> >> On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 12:38:11 +0200, Martin Mewes <mm...@me...> wrote:
>> > the bandwidth module only works properly if you are using the Linux
>> > Firewall module to manage your firewall ..
>> i had this suspision.. maybe you could rewrite these rules into  
>> shorewall
>> rules if you find time..
>
> That would be a nice idea ..
> Does shorewall have any file for specifying arbitrary IPtables rules to
> generate though, in addition to those generated from shorewall tables?
i will check that later today. maybe it's easier in the first place to use  
the built in accounting feature: http://www.shorewall.net/Accounting.html  
- ok, it may be a pain in the back to maintain the bandwith monitoring  
module.. your decision..

PAT