[Eug-lug] Measuring network traffic

[larry price]

are you looking for a netflow collector or a lan monitor?

tools you will probably want to look at

ntop
http://www.ntop.org/overview.html
(straightforward top-like interface to network activity monitoring)

rrdtool
http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/
(more of a toolkit for writing your monitoring package)

RRD supports gathering information from switches and routers
(basically anything with an snmpd)

On 9/15/06, Ben Barrett <stircrazyben at gmail.com> wrote:
> "Long term" as in, across reboots?  I was going to suggest iptables counts
> -- I've seen clever rules setup just for monitoring & such,
> but I think you'd have to hack something on to accumulate those counts every
> so often in case your kernel got panicky or someone pulled the plug  ;)
>
>     Ben
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> On 9/15/06, Bob Miller <kbob at jogger-egg.com> wrote:
> > I would like do some long term measurements of how much network
> > traffic my server is sending and receiving.  What's the best tool to
> > do that at the host level?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > --
> > Bob Miller                              K<bob>
> >
> kbob at jogger-egg.com
> >
> >
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