Packets Counting

[Steven M Campbell]

Heh, no fair!  That's more clever than the one I did off the cuff :)

Bill Chappell wrote:

>
> I do not have time this instant to share the code but the outline of
> a packet counter I use is to create chain MANGLE_ACTIVITY in -t mangle,
> add a rule that simply RETURNs to MANGLE_ACTIVITY, Insert a jump to the
> MANGLE_ACTIVITY chain in -t mangle PREROUTING (so it is the first chain
> hit by all incoming packets), use whatever matches, like --sport or
> --dport (remember to specify protocol with port matches) and/or an
> interface match.  Then, in a script (mine happens to be Perl), run
> "iptables -t mangle -nvL MANGLE_ACTIVITY" and pipe (|) it through grep
> to get the RETURN line with the packet count and pipe it through
> awk to pick off the packet count followed by
> "iptables -t mangle -Z MANGLE_ACTIVITY" to zero the counter,
> both in a loop with a sleep to get the interval (approximately).
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Bill
>
> (Without deadlines, we'd live forever.)
>
>
>
> M. A. Imam wrote:
>
>> Can i record the the number of packets each 2 seconds with tcpdump. i 
>> can see packets with tcpdump but how to count it every 2 seconds
>>
>>
>>> ===== Original Message From edvin.seferovic at kolp.at =====
>>> Maybe you should use tcpdump for testing purposes instead of using 
>>> iptables.
>>>
>>> Just my opinion.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Edvin
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: netfilter-bounces at lists.netfilter.org
>>> [mailto:netfilter-bounces at lists.netfilter.org] On Behalf Of M. A. Imam
>>> Sent: Mittwoch, 16. März 2005 16:56
>>> To: netfilter at lists.netfilter.org
>>> Subject: Packets Counting
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> How can i count the number of packets on an interface evry 2 or 5 
>>> seconds.
>>> and
>>> i want to count only specific packets like only arriving packets 
>>> from port
>>> 5001
>>>
>>> Any ideas...
>>>
>>> Muhammad
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