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Date:      Thu, 24 May 2001 00:35:22 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Nick Rogness <nick@rogness.net>
To:        Kulraj Gurm <kulraj@microbiz.net>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bandwidth tracking
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105240008590.3459-100000@cody.jharris.com>
In-Reply-To: <002201c0e3f0$7412cfe0$6500000a@kulraj>

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On Wed, 23 May 2001, Kulraj Gurm wrote:

> What is the best way to track bandwidth? Any and all ideas welcome.
> Can bridging help?
> 
> What we have is :
> 
> 1.    Cisco router on wall supplied by telco
> 2.  Main FreeBSD 4.3-Stable box hosting client sites, three NIC's in
> this machine
>         i. First to switch connected to cisco
>         ii. Second to switch serving our internal 10.0.0.0/24 network
>         iii. Third doing nothing yet ............. - been thinking
> 		about bridging for a while.

> 3.  co-lo client boxes, for which we need to monitor traffic - these
> can be attached to first switch or whatever seems to be the best way


	MRTG.  A great little graphic bandwidth reporting package.  It's
	in the ports.  

	There is also a neat little shell script, bandwidth tool that
	someone (I think DES) posted to the list a while ago.  It involved
	netstat in combination with another graphic building app (can't
	recall the name).


Nick Rogness <nick@rogness.net>
 - Keep on Routing in a Free World...
  "FreeBSD: The Power to Serve!"



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