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From: Michael Hasenstein <mha@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD and network accounting
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 12:31:41 +0200
Organization: University of Technology Chemnitz, FRG
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On Wed, 24 Apr 1996, Andrew Gordon wrote:

> Michael Hasenstein <mha@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote:
> >tcpdump is also useless, since it puts a device into promiscous mode,
> >which makes the accounting files far too big. I can tell nacctd to only
> >count packets that go through the router.
>
> What's wrong with the "-p" option to tcpdump?

tcpdump is useless for us, just believe it. It would take too long to
explain our situation and it wouldn't be of interest, too.
Very short: We have a second (linux) box where accounting works very well
with nacctd, and we really don't want a second solution for the same
purpose.

So my (now more specific) question is: What do I have to change in the
sources in order to not only be able to compile nacctd (we did that) but
to get it working!

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