Bandwidth Monitor

[Ed Wilts]

On Sat, May 08, 2004 at 12:57:58PM +0400, Harry wrote:
> I have a DSL connection which has a bandwidth capacity of 3GB a
> month...having said that I have 16 machines hooked up on the network
> with a linux server, is there a away to capture/monitor the total
> consumption of bandwidth utilised per machine or server basis.This is
> complicated as I have squid also for caching.....did a lot of reserch
> there were some scripts for iptables but I cant figure out how to use
> it ?Has anyone used something like this B4?Help is really appreciated.

I use mrtg to monitor my traffic.  It's great for capturing averages
over time and can also be used to graph the totals.

Check out http://www.geocities.com/josef_wendel/
I haven't built it yet, but it looks like it will do what you want.

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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
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