From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Jun 20 13:06:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA01710 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Sat, 20 Jun 1998 13:06:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp.plinet.com (root@flattened.plinet.com [206.168.149.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA01703 for ; Sat, 20 Jun 1998 13:06:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@plinet.com) Received: from alcatraz (alcatraz.denver.plinet.com [207.174.4.221]) by smtp.plinet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA12068; Sat, 20 Jun 1998 14:06:07 -0600 (envelope-from freebsd@plinet.com) Message-Id: <199806202006.OAA12068@smtp.plinet.com> X-Sender: freebsd@pop.plinet.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0.1 Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 14:06:06 -0600 To: Paul Stewart , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG From: Ben Schumacher Subject: Re: Tracking machine bandwidth In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 11:24 AM 6/14/98 -0400, Paul Stewart wrote: >HI there... > >We are looking at getting into co-location for a number of clients >currently (we are using about 15% of our bandwidth in peak times, kind of >a waste). Sounds very similar to us. >Our problem is that we need to track the daily/monthly bandwidth used by a >customer's box that we will have no root access to or worse yet, might be >an NT box. Is there a mod we can make to MRTG or a similar program to >track the bandwidth on 5 minute sampling that a particular box is using >up? We currently use MRTG on our Cisco routers and it works great. We >need a cost effective solution if possible. We do the very thing you are talking about, but instead we track usage off of our 3Com Switch. You might want to look into getting a switch that supports SNMP, this would certainly provide you with information you seek and the interface with which to use MRTG. Hope this helps. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message