[Gllug] Monitoring network usage

Richard Cohen vmlinuz at gmail.com
Fri Mar 4 10:47:22 UTC 2005


On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 10:34:13 -0000, Wiehe, Simon <simon.wiehe at csfb.com> 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.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Simon

I use mrtg at home for this sort of thing...  Doesn't show totals - at
least not how I've got it setup, but it does show averages over
day/week/month, so you can extrapolate.

Cheers
Richard
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