macwatch 0.2.7 review

macwatch is a small daemon that counts in- and outbytes from a given MAC-address and stores the result in a file for use with MRTG

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 52K Developer: Torgeir Hansen

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macwatch is a small daemon that counts in- and outbytes from a given MAC-address and stores the result in a file for use with MRTG. It will write the file every 5 minutes by default, and uses libpcap to do all the work. I made it to monitor some servers on a DMZ and show how much bandwith is used with MRTG.

Requirements:
A system that you can compile c-source on with libpcap on some flavour of unix.
This has been tested on:
Linux (2.x)
Solaris (8)
HP-UX (10.20)
NetBSD
compiled, but not tested (no root) on:
OpenBSD 2.8
FreeBSD 4.4

What's New in This Release:
minor update to readme and helpscreen and removed some headerchecks
added chdir("/") to ensure that our files are created in the chrooted enviroment, if any!