NAME

       ipfm - IP Flow Meter

SYNOPSIS

       ipfm [-c config-file ][--config config-file ] [-h][--help] [-n][--nodaemon] [-p pid-file ][--pid pid-file
       ]

DESCRIPTION

       ipfm is a bandwidth analysis tool. It counts how much data was  send  and  received  by  specified  hosts
       through an Internet link.

       ipfm  is  based  on  the libpcap (ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/libpcap-0.4.tar.Z, see http://www.tcpdump.org/ for
       newer versions) and should be portable.

       ipfm is developed under Linux libc6 (Debian sid).

       It was reported to work under Linux libc5 (slackware) and libc6 (RedHat, SuSE), FreeBSD,  OpenBSD,  IRIX,
       Solaris,  HP-UX and AIX.  As we can't test new versions under these OSes, there might be problems. Please
       report them at ipfm@via.ecp.fr.

OPTIONS

       Note that depending on the OS, long options may no be supported.

       -c config-file, --config config-file
              config-file specifies an alternate configuration file to use. By default, /etc/ipfm.conf is used.

       -n, --nodaemon
              does not run as a daemon

       -h, --help
              displays an help message on standard output and exit

       -p pid-file, --pid pid-file
              pid-file specifies an alternate pid file to use. By default, /var/run/ipfm.pid is used.

SIGNALS

       ipfm reacts to certain signals.

       SigHUP This causes ipfm to dump (and clear) its data tables in the log file (see  ipfm.conf(8)  ),  close
              pcap descriptor, reload configuration file and restart.

       SigTERM
              This causes ipfm to dump (and clear) its data tables in the log file (see ipfm.conf(8) ) and exit.

       SigKILL
              This causes ipfm to exit.

       SigINT (ctrl-c)
              This causes ipfm to exit after having dumped and cleared its buffers.

       SigUSR1
              This causes ipfm to dump its data tables in the log file without exiting or clearing them.

SEE ALSO

       ipfm.conf(8)

AUTHORS

       Robert CHERAMY <tibob@via.ecp.fr>, Andres KRAPF <dae@via.ecp.fr>

       IPFM home page can be found at http://www.via.ecp.fr/~tibob/ipfm/

                                          Last change: 06 october 2002                                   IPFM(8)