[ale] Bandwidth tracking

Nick Travis linuxnews at wormfishin.com
Tue Sep 2 13:31:51 EDT 2003


there "was" a tool that would do that, at least I think it would, it's
called IPmeter, but it hasn't been updated on sourceforge since sometime in
2000, and their website doesn't respond.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christopher Fowler" <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com>
To: ale at ale.org
To: <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 1:17 PM
Subject: Re: [ale] Bandwidth tracking


> mrtg retrieves its data from snmp.  I believe almost all data comes from
> /proc/net/snmp.  Net-snmp gets its info for Linux from that source.
>
> I gathered form the question that the user would like to have possibly
> his router keep track of all bandwidth used per IP that maybe on
> a private segment behind the router.  I think but am not sure that
> QoS will do this for you.  It is possible that maybe a package exists that
> sits on a net in promiscuous mode and adds up the data per host.  That
would
> be a cool program.
>
>
> Chris
>
> On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 12:37:52PM -0400, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > You want mrtg   multi-router traffic grapher.
> >
> > Cruise freshmeat.net and search for mrtg.
> >
> > On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 12:25, nick travis wrote:
> > > I'm looking for an app that can monitor all network traffic and track
> > > the bandwidth used by each host.  I will need a usage breakdown by
hour,
> > > does anyone have any suggestions?
> > >
> > > Nick
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