I am proud to announce, as I am the new maintainer, the release of IPAcct
0.7d.
This is available from http://www.bigfoot.com/~useripacct/
IPacct 0.7d introduces a new policy mechanism that provides per user
IP statistics, that is, it just provides the user's IP usage. A user
must be allowed to have IP, and a program is provided to control
access to the IP level.
This package adds per user ip accounting to the kernel and contains
programs to control and use this accounting data.
Fist of all it consists of a kernel patch which adds per user ip
accounting to the kernel. The kernel patch accounts all bytes sent or
received on the ip level, i.e. all headers get accounted including the
ip header itself. This data is exported via the proc filesystem.
Moreover the patch allows to control the ip access on a per user
basis. Furthermore it is possible to specify a weight for ip
addresses. This weight controls how much every byte costs that is
transfered from or to this ip addresses. With this weight/cost set to
zero you can ignore certain host or networks completely from the
statistics which might be convenient for the local network. The cost
can be different for different ip addresses.
Second, there's a program for controlling and viewing the
weights/costs and the accounting data produced by the kernel. With it
you can modify the weight table in a manner very similar to the syntax
of the route program.
Regards
Please send me any bug reports/ problems you have encountered with these
patches and I will be happy to advise.
Zaheer Merali
Grid9 Internet Solutions
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