[Gllug] Monitoring network usage

[Russell Howe]

On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 10:34:13AM -0000, Wiehe, Simon wrote:
> All,
> 
> I use my Linux box as a gateway machine for the rest of my network and am
> connected to an ADSL router through eth0. Is there any way to monitor the
> bandwidth utilisation across eth0? I am considering changing ISP and may take
> a deal that has a limit of 50GB a month, I just want to get an idea of how
> much I use currently to see if it is viable.

I found the IP accounting stuff worked OK. Debian package was called
ipac. As well as mrtg there is something called cacti which uses
rrdtool.

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