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Re[2]: [cobalt-users] [RaQ3] Telnet Traffic



Hi Jens,

> You must install the "UserIPAcct" software package, which provides per
> user ip accounting for Linux. It is quite easy to install, but it
> requires a kernel recompilation. If you do only have one RaQ (which
> ofcourse is in production), it may not be possible to try this.

> If you do only want to check, if an unreasonable amount of traffic is
> being used (and you only have this one user), you may be able to get
> off by installing an accounting rule in the kernel (using the ipfwadm
> or ipchains utility). This will show all traffic on a specific ip (but
> you cannot see, if it was user bob or alice that produced the
> traffic).

Thanks for the help. In this case, I prefer not to do anything. Too
much risk ;)