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IPFM(8)								       IPFM(8)

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	 (Red‐
       Hat,  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, /usr/local/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 configu‐
	      ration 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)

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