Re: Paket counters for aliased interfaces ?

[David Ford]

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Patrick Mau wrote:
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> And here's the question:
> I would like to collect statistics for eth0:0 but obviously the
> pakets are only counted for the real interface. If I had enough time
> and knowledge, how should I implement paket counters for aliased
> interfaces ?
>
> PS: Am I right that it isn't possible ? tcpdump doesn't 'work right'
>     either.

Correct.  "eth0" is only a label.  You need to use a userland process such as
firewalling and count the packets.  For tcpdump, specify 'src or dst ....'

-d

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