From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 28 16:16:31 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A5A037B405 for ; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 16:16:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from samson.sentinelchicken.net (h-64-105-205-76.CMBRMAOR.covad.net [64.105.205.76]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 00F6643E4A for ; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 16:16:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jwm@sentinelchicken.net) Received: (qmail 9506 invoked by uid 1000); 29 Jan 2003 00:17:36 -0000 Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 19:17:36 -0500 From: Jason Morgan To: Mahlon , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: monitoring traffic with IPFW - good idea? Message-ID: <20030129001736.GA9419@sentinelchicken.net> References: <20030125160751.GB7622@sentinelchicken.net> <20030129001049.GC91756@martini.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030129001049.GC91756@martini.nu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks, I'll check it out. On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 04:10:49PM -0800, Mahlon wrote: > On Sat, Jan 25, 2003, Jason Morgan wrote: > > I remotely admin a server and am trying to come up with a simple way to > > monitor traffic. > > > I wrote a script a short while back that helps. > Graphs traffic on a per host basis. > > Install rrdtool and ipfm from the ports, then run this script via cron: > > http://www.martini.nu/misc/ipfm_graph.pl > > It will output images like this, in a HTML page: > http://www.martini.nu/misc/ipfmimages/totals_daily.png > > Let me know if it works out for you. > > > Mahlon E. Smith jabber id: mahlon@chat.martini.nu > http://www.martini.nu/ get pgp key: mahlon-pgp@martini.nu > ........................................................................ > "I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it." - Jack Handey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message