From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 15 23:45:42 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 6F30537B400 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 23:45:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 14542 invoked from network); 16 Mar 2002 08:45:30 +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 08:45:30 +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 08:45:35 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020316074537.6F30537B400@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 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)? > 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 -- Your talents will be recognized and suitably rewarded. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message