Tools like MRTG for broadband bandwidth meter

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 11:11 -0500, Roger Heflin wrote:
> 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.

Snort and wireshark are both in the standard repos.

poc