[Gllug] Monitoring network usage

[Simon Morris]

On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 10:46 +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 10:36:20AM +0000, Simon wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 10:34 +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?
> >
> > ntop is very nice for this type of thing
> 
> 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.

You could use Nagios for monitoring bandwidth through SNMP, but ntop is
a nice quick out of the box solution


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