aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/net-mgmt/pmacct/pkg-descr
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorKirill Ponomarev <krion@FreeBSD.org>2004-07-01 14:29:39 +0000
committerKirill Ponomarev <krion@FreeBSD.org>2004-07-01 14:29:39 +0000
commit9ac97e8cdb7be2f40e5879dc29f79138619952ac (patch)
treeb7610b596afde6920eff77330fd0fb7c4234e864 /net-mgmt/pmacct/pkg-descr
parentf1f501be8599bc5b107fffbcd820559a28e59da6 (diff)
downloadports-9ac97e8cdb7be2f40e5879dc29f79138619952ac.tar.gz
ports-9ac97e8cdb7be2f40e5879dc29f79138619952ac.zip
Notes
Diffstat (limited to 'net-mgmt/pmacct/pkg-descr')
-rw-r--r--net-mgmt/pmacct/pkg-descr18
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/net-mgmt/pmacct/pkg-descr b/net-mgmt/pmacct/pkg-descr
index 1079eeb0532d..d4838dfb0f9a 100644
--- a/net-mgmt/pmacct/pkg-descr
+++ b/net-mgmt/pmacct/pkg-descr
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
-pmacct is a network tool to gather ip traffic informations
-(bytes counter and number of packets); aggregation of
-statistics is done using simple primitives (MAC addresses,
+pmacct is a set of network tools to gather IP traffic
+informations (bytes counter and number of packets); aggregation
+of statistics is done using simple primitives (MAC addresses,
source host, destination host, ports and ip protocols) that can
be used alone or combined together to form complex aggregation
-methods; counters are either global or historical (aggregated
-and separated at fixed timeslots). Data is stored in a
-in-memory table or using a SQL database (MySQL or PostgreSQL).
-Gathering packets off the wire is done using pcap library and
-promiscuous mode of network interfaces when specifically
-required.
+methods; counters are either global or historical (broken at
+fixed timeslots). Data is either stored in a memory table,
+pulled to stdout or in a SQL database (MySQL or PostgreSQL).
+Gathering packets off the wire is done either using pcap
+library (and promiscuous mode of the listening interface) or
+reading Netflow packets coming from the network.
WWW: http://www.ba.cnr.it/~paolo/pmacct/