LAN Traffic monitoring

eugenejvr eugenejvr at gmail.com
Fri Dec 24 04:13:43 UTC 2010


Hi. For reel-time monitoring I use ipftaf. For a long-term solution I use
Cacti. It records everything to a database and draws a nice graph for you.
You can monitor your whole network with Cacti from one computer because it
uses snmp toe gather data
On 23 Dec 2010 3:28 PM, "ESGLinux" <esggrupos at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I use jperf. Is a client-server aplication and it works fine when you want
> to measure the traffic between 2 machines you can acces.
>
> HTH,
>
> ESG
>
> 2010/12/21 cliff here <c4ifford at gmail.com>
>
> > Try Iptraf,  I don't think it has any dependencies  and I use a lot for
> > RHEL4.8
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 12:03 PM, sunhux G <sunhux at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I'm looking for a way to monitor the traffic load, ie rate of traffic
> > going
> > > in
> > > & out of a specific NIC on my RHES 4.6.
> > >
> > > Thought of using a script to take consecutive readings, say every 5
> > > seconds by taking the difference in the RX & TX readings & then
> > > divided by 5 to get the rate.
> > >
> > > Which of the following outputs are most up-to-date & accurate :
> > > ifconfig bond0  (ie issue this command 5 secs apart, get the
difference
> > >                       & divide by 5)
> > > netstat -i bond0  (ie issue this command 5 secs apart, get the
difference
> > >                       & divide by 5)
> > >  OR
> > > cat /proc/net/dev
> > >
> > >
> > > "ethtool -S bond0" on my server gave  "no statistics available".
> > >
> > >
> > > If anyone has a script (Shell or Perl) to share, appreciate if you can
> > > email it over
> > >
> > >
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