[xen-tools] Re: Traffic accouting with xen

[Steve Kemp]

On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 03:46:42AM +0530, George Cherian wrote:

>  Is there some way to do traffic accounting in xen using the xen-tools.

  No.

> I couldn't find anything in the 'bin' directory related to traffic management.

  The obvious way to achieve this is to do traffic counting on the host system
 via the "vif" interfaces which are created for the xen guest domains.

  Theres no reason why that shouldn't work, and I've done it successfully in
 the past.

  To simplify things I like to make sure that the inferface names are
 predictable.  So for example the guest domain named "foo.my.flat"
 will have the interface name "vif-foo".

  You can do this by setting the configuration file to have
 something like this:

   vif = ['ip=192.168.1.222, vifname=vif-foo']

  Then on the host name you can see the traffic via: ifconfig vif-foo:

vif-foo   Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF  
          inet6 addr: fe80::fcff:ffff:feff:ffff/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1262100 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:12285494 errors:0 dropped:1490 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:173826361 (165.7 MiB)  TX bytes:780228401 (744.0 MiB)

  I hope that helps ..

Steve
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>  Thanks in advance.
> 
> -George
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