[lug] Bandwidth Monitoring

[Brian Talley]

pmacctd might be worth checking out
http://www.pmacct.net/

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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