[ale] measuring bandwidth

[Chris Fowler]

On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 19:43 -0400, J. D. wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I need to measure some bandwidth on a bunch of linux servers. At first
> we took a snapshot of the ifconfig output at the beginning and end of
> the day. The intent was to compare the differences. Apparently there
> were some is some sort of cycle or reset in the data that causes it to
> be inaccurate for this purpose. The value at the end of the day ended
> up being less than the start of the day.
> 
> It appears this method is invalid at least on the redhat 5 distro in
> use.. Any ideas on other ways to collect this data?

I suppose the counter rolled over.

You could try mrtg to gather the stats.