On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:29 PM, saidimu apale <saidimu@gmail.com> wrote:
ahem... this doesn't appear to be FreeBSD-specific behavior, but rather very standard in *nix derivatives (of which *BSD is one of them, Linux being another).
<begin_hesitation> Or is that not the case? If not, gimme a moment to don my flame-suit on before I get hosed ;) </end_hesitation> saidi
Relax, keep your T-shirt on. You're correct. But rather than do all that, if your router supports NetFlow, why introduce a single point of failure in the network path, just for graphing? You can set up flow-tools or ntop on your *nix box, have the router export flows to the box and visualize your traffic really nicely. (unless your *nix box is doing something more, like bandwidth management/transparent firewall) BR, S