[YLUG] Traffic Monitor

[Gaffer.]

Hi James,

On Saturday 19 May 2007 17:47, James Hall inscribed thus:
> Hey,
>
> gnome-system-monitor has network monitoring, and even a nice graph.
> You can also add the system monitor to a panel. Sorry if you were
> looking for KDE stuff, I'm mostly a gnome man.
>
> Regards,
> James

Thanks for that one !  I can't abide Gnome !!  Sorry !
If the applet can be made to work with KDE it could be what I need.  I 
will have a play with it !  Particularly since its on the SuSE CD and 
installable with YasT.

> On 5/19/07, Gaffer. <derrick_s at tesco.net> wrote:
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> > Does anyone know if there is any "Traffic Monitoring" applet for
> > the data up/down rates ?  Similar to the "Kinternet one" in SuSE 
> > but works with broadband.
> >
> > I can find plenty of packet sniffers and such,  like mrtg etc,
> > but I don't need anything heavyweight or as detailed just to keep
> > an eye on my connection.
> >
> > I know that I can get time related logs from the router,  but
> > that doesn't tell me if the traffic stopped for a few minutes,
> > just the totals for a given period.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.

-- 
Best Regards:
             Derrick.