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hi Guys,

I have a simple question, How can we count packets towards the following IP from my server.


I wonder if we can count packets sent and received towards the above mentioned node.



Also ifconfig -a output is as:


BR//Asteroid

I don't have a very specific answer for you, but I think that the only way you can count packets to a specific address is with wireshark (it's a network traffic sniffer).

If you are happy playing around with iptables rulesets, you could count with it (although there are a number of situations in which this idea might not be a particularly good one; eg, you have no experience with iptables, you don't have an existing firewall, except set up via a gui tool that doesn't do this, its a production server that you daren't mess around with, etc, etc).

# tcpdump host 100.400.120.140

Upon termination (Ctrl+C), tcpdump will show the number of packets captured. If you need these tracked over a long period of time, you should probably point the output to a dump file. See the tcpdump(8) manpages.

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P.S. 100.400 is not even a real network...