[lug] Measuring bandwidth

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 02:36:49PM -0700, DeVerter at robinsonmechanical.com wrote:
>Later today, frii.com will be moving my DSL to their service away from
>Qwest.  According to my arrangement with them I am allowed monthly
>transfers of 10Gb per month.  Does anyone know of utility for Linux to
>monitor traffic flow across eth* ?

You can set up SNMP on the Cisco, and set up MRTG to pull the usage data.
It's then fairly easy to process that data into a monthly usage level.  I
have a Python program that will do exactly that based on the MRTG log file.
Or, you can just eye-ball the MRTG stats.

Sean
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