[lug] Bandwidth Monitoring

[George Sexton]

iptop is kind of what I’m looking for. The problem with it is that unless
you’re watching right when the spike in traffic happens, it’s no good. What
I really need is something that shows bucketed values:

IP	30 seconds		60 Seconds		300 Seconds
3600 Seconds

then, I’d like an option to sort by one of the columns.

I’m probably going to have to write something to get just what I want.

George Sexton
MH Software, Inc.
303 438-9585
www.mhsoftware.com

From: lug-bounces at lug.boulder.co.us [mailto:lug-bounces at lug.boulder.co.us]
On Behalf Of Will
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2011 11:35 AM
To: Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List
Subject: Re: [lug] Bandwidth Monitoring

Have you tried iptop?
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 11:30 AM, George Sexton <georges at mhsoftware.com>
wrote:
I'm looking for a network usage monitor for Linux. The features I would like
are:

Lightweight - prefer console based, and not X11 since this is for remote
machines.

Show one minute and 5 minute usage by IP Address, aggregating by port/ip
address, sorted by bytes or packets descending.

I don't want to use wireshark because it's X11. IPTraf is OK, but it doesn't
really show what I need. It can show every connection, or usage by port but
it doesn't aggregate by IP for a history. TCPDump gives tons of detail but
it's hard to get the overall information when you're seeing hundreds of
packets per second go by.

I've thought of writing a filter that uses TCPDump as a data source but I
want to see if there's something out there that will solve my problem
without having to write some code.

George Sexton
MH Software, Inc.
303 438-9585
www.mhsoftware.com



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