Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 21:09:07 +0200 From: Alex de Kruijff <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: traffic analysis tools Message-ID: <20061026190907.GA1479@Alex1.kruijff.org> In-Reply-To: <20061021141934.GP31580@tigger.digitaltorque.ca> References: <20061021141934.GP31580@tigger.digitaltorque.ca>
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On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 10:19:34AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Hey people, > > I'd like something to look at traffic use through my gateway, so I know how > much of my upload bandwidth and download bandwidth is in use at any time. > Ideally it'll tell me from where, so I can look at internal abusers, or get an > idea of where hits are coming from. > > Off the top of my head, I can think of two tools. > > 1. ntop - great web interface, but I've found it unstable > 2. iptraf - good curses interface, but I'm looking for trend monitoring > 3. mrtg - as I'm running snmp, so I could just monitor it from a desktop > running mrtg... > > Any other suggestions? The firewall ipfw comes with a counter option. You could collect this information out the firewall with ipa into its database. Then create graphs with mrtg. I have two articles about how to do this on my website. -- Alex Please copy the original recipients, otherwise I may not read your reply. Howtos based on my personal use, including information about setting up a firewall and creating traffic graphs with MRTG http://alex.kruijff.org/FreeBSD/
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