[Gllug] Monitoring network usage

Bruce Richardson itsbruce at uklinux.net
Fri Mar 4 11:09:01 UTC 2005


On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 10:51:20AM +0000, Simon wrote:
> > Though I think mrtg would be better if he wanted to track usage over a
> > period of time.  Lovely graphs.
> 
> Very true.
> 
> ntop has some nice graphs but not the same standard as mrtg. I've always
> found mrtg a bit of a PITA to setup though.. but I haven't done it
> enough to give a fair opinion.

One nice feature with mrtg is that you can tag its graphs to the counts
on arbitrary netfilter chains, so that you can precisely define what you
want to measure.

-- 
Bruce

It is impolite to tell a man who is carrying you on his shoulders that
his head smells.
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