[Gllug] Bandwidth monitoring

[Jason Clifford]

On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Ashley Evans wrote:

> I run a proxy (squid) for about 8 or so people I was wondering what good tools 
> there are for checking who's using how much bandwidth, maybe applying 
> restrictions depending on whether or not I'm using the link. I'd also like to 
> have the squid logs compressed at regular intervals, is there an automatic 
> tool or do I have to cook up a cron job?

The 2.4 and better kernels have support for various bandwidth management 
facilities which should allow you to do most of what you want. 

There is a web page somewhere that specifically shows how to do this for 
squid however I've lost the link - google is your friend.

Logrotate should be able to handle the log requirements.

Jason Clifford
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