Re: bandwidth by user or process id

[Gert Doering <gert () greenie muc de>]

Hi,

On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 02:14:19AM -0700, Patrick Kurz wrote:
> > For typical point-to-point IP traffic, the combination of local address,
> > local port, remote address, remote port, and transport protocol (TCP or UDP)
> > is the closest thing you have to a unique key.
>
> Are you saying, that this method cannot distinguish two different users/PIDs 
> downloading huge data from the same remote address to the same local address? 
> This was the key point of my original question, and if your method relies on 
> addresses and ports only, I have to search for a different solution.

Two differnet local users will have to use different local ports.

That's just the way TCP/UDP works, one of the 5 variables listed above
has to be different for each parallel connection.

gert
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