Hi team, I am wanting to monitor network and user activity. For example how much bandwidth a user has used, what websites they have visited etc. This is a request from my boss. I am developing a linux server running iptables. I apologise if this is not directly related to perl, but the wisdom here is second to none. I have looked at tools such as iptraf and thought about writing a perl script to manipulate the log file into a report. The monitoring is to be done on a per machine bases (would be interesting to note techniques for per user basis). What techniques are widely adopted by others? Can scripts be written for iptables to do the same purpose. Here in New Zealand we have tight bandwidth caps. Your guidance and advise would be most appreciated. Thank you.

In reply to iptables log auditing by Anonymous Monk

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