Tools like MRTG for broadband bandwidth meter

Roger Heflin rogerheflin at gmail.com
Sat Apr 26 16:11:03 UTC 2008


Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 08:49 +0200, Manuel Aróstegui wrote:
>> El sáb, 26-04-2008 a las 11:01 +0530, yogesh at banasdairy.coop escribió:
>>> hi all
>>>
>>> i want tools like mtrg that measure the bandwidth and graph.
>>>  problem with mrtg is its work only with routers and i have broadband
>>> connection
>>> that connected to(bypass username/password) pc directly.
>>>
>>> so can anybody give me some info .....
>>>
>>> Yogesh
>> PandoraFMS
>> http://pandora.sourceforge.net
>>
>> nTop
>> http://www.ntop.org/
> 
> Ntop doesn't appear to exist in the "usual" repos (fedora, freshrpms,
> livna). Is there any deep reason for this?
> 
> poc
> 

If you want to monitor your local network usage, either install net-snmp or just 
  write a trivial application to read and process /proc/net/dev ever few minutes 
or so, this is what net-snmp reads for its data, and counts all outbound network 
traffic on a given machine.

Probably because it is more of a expert user-admin tool rather than a common 
user admin tool.

It keeps track of traffic by protocol, traffic by in and outbound hostname, and 
quite a bit of other stuff, and it rather cpu intensive (it is a full sniffer). 
   Probably not something you want to run except on a non-dedicated full-linux 
firewall, which is probably why it is not in a repo.

If you had a number of users on your network that you wanted to keep track of 
you could run this, or you could run a full proxy server to be able to carefully 
monitor things.

                           Roger




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