Welcome to IP Flow Meter project page
Important notice
As you may have noticed, IPFM has not been actively developed for years. I (tibob) will no longer maintain or modify IPFM.
Have a look at the Similar Projects page fore more active projects. Feel free to complete the page with other projects you know of. Due to spams, the whole trac site has been changed to read-only.
What is IPFM ?
IP Flow Meter (IPFM) is a bandwidth analysis tool, that measures how much bandwidth specified hosts use on their Internet link.
It is written using libpcap ( http://www.tcpdump.org), so it ought to be portable. We develop it under Linux and FreeBSD. It was reported to work under OpenBSD, NetBSD and IRIX; if you own other Un*ces, just tell us if it works and/or report any problem.
IPFM is distributed under GPL
What does IPFM do ?
IPFM produces text files containing bandwitdh consumption per host in bytes :
HOST IN OUT TOTAL host1.domain.com 12345 6666684 6679029 host2.domain.com 1232314 12345 1244659 host3.domain.com 6645632 123 6645755
Almost everything is configurable :
- which hosts to log
- Output time interval and time offset
- Output file name (with date in it)
- reverse DNS resolution
- IN, OUT or TOTAL sorting
Who wrote IPFM ?
Many people contributed to IPFM. Here are main contributors, you should check IPFM changelog for more details.
- Andres KRAPF and Robert CHERAMY wrote first versions of IPFM.
- Samuel Hocevar added some features.
- Loic Tortay wrote a big patch that was partially included into IPFM v0.11.5
