The application is used for accounting of the network traffic passing through your router/gateway. It is based on the libpcap library and functions as a userspace daemon. Options for dividing the network traffic into 4 categories:

• international
• peering
• direct
• local

The traffic accounts are saved in a database, and for the time being MySQL is (and Oracle might be) supported. As libpcap is used for gathering the network data the application runs (for the moment) on the following operating systems:

• Linux
• FreeBSD
• OpenBSD
• Solaris

Please be aware of the fact that only the Linux sources are built and used at the moment, but you are very welcome to submit feedback or merge requests to support other operating systems.

For more detailed information regarding a particular OS, please read the FAQ file and the original README files.

To download this project, use: git clone https://github.com/pyrox777/netacct-mysql.git

To build this project, the following is needed:

• gcc
• libpcap - libpcap-dev
• mysqlclient-dev (up to Debian 8) or libmariadb-dev libmariadb-dev-compat (from Debian 9)
• make

On a Debian-based system, try using: apt install gcc libpcap-dev libmariadb-dev libmariadb-dev-compat make

Inside the project's root directory:

• ./configure
• make

If you would like to install nacctd on the local system, use make install. This copies the nacctd binary to /usr/local/sbin, the configuration files nacctab.sample to /usr/local/etc/nacttab and nacctpeering to /usr/local/etc/nacctpeering. The man pages nacctd and nacctpeering are copied as well.

See README for the meantime.