Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 22:04:52 +0100 (MET) From: Frank Reppin <shauwn@relay.boerde.de> To: Andrew Brampton <andrew@bramp.freeserve.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Bandwidth Monitor Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0211202157260.10091-100000@relay.boerde.de> In-Reply-To: <161901c290d5$7fb99de0$0300a8c0@andrew>
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On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Andrew Brampton wrote: > Hi, Hi, > I've looked high and low but I haven't be able to find the tool I want. > > I just want a simple way to see how many bandwidth/throughput my FreeBSD is > using. For example I want to know how many kb/second are coming in and out > of specific network cards. Eventually I will read these stats every minute, > and make a nice little graph, or something similar. 1) really fast (to install and to see first results) solution: /usr/ports/net/ntop http://www.ntop.org/ntop.html (but I have no idea how it will behave on a busy wire - seeing a lot of connections - over a longer time) 2) MRTG /usr/ports/net/mrtg http://www.mrtg.org provides you with some scripts in it's contrib/ to monitor bandwith by using 'ipfw count' rules (it produces nicely configurable graphs in a min. 5min interval) best regards, Frank Reppin -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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