On 18/06/05, Niall O Broin <niall at makalumedia.com> wrote:
> what I'm mainly interested in doing is counting
> outgoing traffic from the server, which will be from and to random
> ports.
Surely the local http port will be fixed (typically 80 and 443) ?
So a rule matching on local port should work.
Assuming of course you only need a traffic breakdown by service and
not by remote address. Even then, for http you should be able to estimate
per address traffic from the web-server logs.
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