ipac 1.10 review

ipac is an IP accounting package for Linux.It collects, summarizes, and nicely displays IP accounting data

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 58K Developer: Moritz Both

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ipac is an IP accounting package for Linux.It collects, summarizes, and nicely displays IP accounting data. The output of ipac can be a simple ASCII table, an ASCII graph, or even images with graphs showing traffic progression.

ipac is made of two scripts (shell and perl) and one C program:

- ipacset reads a configuration file and sets up ip accounting for the kernel using ipfwadm or ipchains

- fetchipac, executed from cron once in a while, reads the current ip accounting data assembled by the kernel and writes it to a new file

- ipacsum summarizes the data from a set of files and, optionally, replaces these files by one. It displays the values as a simple table containing the sums, as png graph pictures or as ascii graph pictures.

Here are some key features of "ipac":
support for .png image generation with newer GD librarys (1.06)
smaller changes and new features (see CHANGES) (1.06)
rewrite of fetchipac in C and introducing of 'accuracy' to ipacsum (1.07)
several bug fixes in ipacsum and fetchipac (1.08, 1.09)

What's New in This Release:
added Suse rpm directory under contrib/
ipacsum: --png-header-in-index option
ipacsum: corrected documentation and behavior concerning --png-index
ipacsum: --png-start, --png-end, --png-charset
ipacsum: x axis labels are now aligned to month and year borders
ipacsum: bug fix illegal division at line 1206/1185