Subject: Re: accounting on mac-adress
To: Tobias Schuepp <tobias.schuepp@antwerpes.de>
From: Grant Beattie <grant@grunta.com>
List: current-users
Date: 09/07/2001 11:49:27
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 09:19:51AM +0200, Tobias Schuepp wrote:

> i want to do ethernettraffic accounting on the interfaces internal
> mac-adress. so i can handel my c-class network by dhcp and do correct
> accouting for any user.

You should be able to use `tcpdump' for this and collate the data.

I've used something similar to count based on IP address, where it
wasn't practical to use ipf's count facility (because you need to know
the address to be able to account for it).

g.