From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 15 23:55:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rush.telenordia.se (mail.telenordia.se [194.213.64.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 66CB137B405 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 23:55:24 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 14597 invoked from network); 16 Mar 2002 08:55:17 +0100 Received: from bb-62-5-36-29.bb.tninet.se (HELO there) (62.5.36.29) by mail.telenordia.se with SMTP; 16 Mar 2002 08:55:17 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Mark Rowlands To: "Peter Brezny" , Subject: Re: real time throughput monitoring per interface Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 08:55:22 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020316075524.66CB137B405@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday 16 March 2002 8:45 am, Mark Rowlands wrote: > On Thursday 14 March 2002 9:27 pm, Peter Brezny wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm looking for a way to view the current throughput of various > > interfaces in a freebsd router. > > > > are there some flags to tcpdump that will give you the current kb/s > > flowing through an interface? > > > > does ntop do this? > > kind of but I have found ntop to bit a bit flakey under FreeBSD > particularly when monitoring multiple interfaces. > > > are there other better command line tools? > > snmpget ( ok I was kidding) > > gkrellm , while not a commandline tool (requires X) is quite pretty and > very quick to set up and gives you a quick overview of the box. > > multiple instances of intop (the command line version of ntop)? hhmm just checked that.....no can do, one interface at a time :-( > > I haven't gotten around to configuring mrtg to watch the interfaces yet > > and just need something quick, easy and real time. > > mrtg takes, ooohh, around 5 minutes to set up. I just did it yesterday for > around 25 routers and servers. > > cfgmaker ipaddress > config_file > indexmaker config_file > /web/server/index.html > mrtg config_file > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- There are more old drunkards than old doctors. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message