[ale] Network Usage tracking.

[Jim Popovitch]

Hi Chris,

ntop is your friend.  It will show you usage by protocol and interface, and
the interface is all webbased on port 3000 by default.  My experience is
that it's pretty low on resource utilization too.

Finally, my experiences with running a user based website and mailinglist is
that it saves $$ when using iptables/chains to change the type of service
for smtp (avoids utilization peaks) as well as using mod_throttle w/ Apache
to limit bandwidth consumed by web-spiders and archivers.

-Jim P.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Farris [mailto:chris at room17 dot com]
> Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 9:18 AM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] Network Usage tracking.
>
>
> Ok, the ale.org webserver is using a lot more bandwidth this month (up
> 25%), and it looks like I may get charged extra.
>
> Looking at the weblogs I can tell that the websites aren't using excess
> bandwidth. So I want to know where my bits are going.
>
> I don't have access to the network this box resides on, so I need
> something that can track protocol usage on the ethernet interface.
>
> Can SNMP do that? Is there a solution thats a tad more secure?
>
> Thanks
> Chris
>
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