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MHL
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PostPosted: Fri May 27, 2005 6:23 pm    Post subject: log in gentoo NAT server Reply with quote

hi there,

I just set up a gateway use gentoo, I am wondering what program I can record and view the log of the incoming or outgoing traffic.

and one more question. when I view the dmesg i realize soemthing like this
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eth0: Resetting the Tx ring pointer.
NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000.
diagnostics: net 0cc0 media 8802 dma 00c00021 fifo 8800
Flags; bus-master 1, dirty 18(2) current 34(2)
Transmit list 01baf340 vs. c1baf340.
0: @c1baf200 length 80000068 status 80000068
1: @c1baf2a0 length 80000068 status 80000068
2: @c1baf340 length 80000068 status 00000068
3: @c1baf3e0 length 80000068 status 00000068
4: @c1baf480 length 80000068 status 00000068
5: @c1baf520 length 80000068 status 00000068
6: @c1baf5c0 length 80000068 status 00000068
7: @c1baf660 length 80000068 status 00000068
8: @c1baf700 length 80000068 status 00000068
9: @c1baf7a0 length 80000068 status 00000068
10: @c1baf840 length 80000068 status 00000068
11: @c1baf8e0 length 80000068 status 00000068
12: @c1baf980 length 80000068 status 00000068
13: @c1bafa20 length 80000068 status 00000068
14: @c1bafac0 length 80000068 status 00000068
15: @c1bafb60 length 80000068 status 00000068



what is this mean and how can I fix it( the internet works fine). and the eth0 is the internal lan NIC
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PostPosted: Fri May 27, 2005 8:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

you can use ethereal to monitor traffic
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PostPosted: Sat May 28, 2005 11:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

thanks, I will try it out. thanks
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PostPosted: Sun May 29, 2005 2:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

actually, I think Ethereal is too advance and I have to use gui to view things.

is anything use terminal to view the log?
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PostPosted: Sun May 29, 2005 8:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Try tcpdump or tethereal (the latter is a part of the ethereal ebuild).
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PostPosted: Sun May 29, 2005 9:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Also if you're interested in statistics of your traffic, try iptraf - it has ncurses gui and shows some interesting information.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 3:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

thank you very much for reponding.
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