[Wolves] Bandwidth monitoring

Ron Wellsted ron at wellsted.org.uk
Thu Sep 8 18:19:23 BST 2005


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On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Adam Sweet wrote:

> Hi
>
> Does anyone here know of a tool that will record
> bandwidth usage across a network interface, both in
> and out?
>
> Basically I need to know the amount of traffic in in
> MB (or KB or whatever) going in and out of a machine
> so that it can be calculated at the end of every
> month. The data would therefore need to survive an
> ifdown or a reboot.
>
> I notice my ISP (f2s.net) has a web interface that
> details daily usage in and out, on and off peak and
> also monthly stats. Something like that would be
> great, but there is no indicator that it is an open
> source app.
>
> So far my googling has produced things that look
> abandoned, I just wondered if anyone has any
> suggetsions.
>

mrtg <http://mrtg.hdl.com> might do the trick, or look at IPCop for a 
firewall which has it built in.

Also try <http://www.ts.infn.it/computing/IPaccounting>


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Ron Wellsted
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