From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 20 13: 5: 5 2002 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 400DE37B401 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 13:05:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay.boerde.de (relay.boerde.de [213.187.87.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBD1143E97 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 13:05:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shauwn@relay.boerde.de) Received: by relay.boerde.de (Postfix, from userid 639) id 81AB410FF5; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 22:04:52 +0100 (MET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by relay.boerde.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F7A110FE9; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 22:04:52 +0100 (MET) Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 22:04:52 +0100 (MET) From: Frank Reppin Reply-To: Frank.Reppin@boerde.de To: Andrew Brampton Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Bandwidth Monitor In-Reply-To: <161901c290d5$7fb99de0$0300a8c0@andrew> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Andrew Brampton wrote: > Hi, Hi, > I've looked high and low but I haven't be able to find the tool I want. > > I just want a simple way to see how many bandwidth/throughput my FreeBSD is > using. For example I want to know how many kb/second are coming in and out > of specific network cards. Eventually I will read these stats every minute, > and make a nice little graph, or something similar. 1) really fast (to install and to see first results) solution: /usr/ports/net/ntop http://www.ntop.org/ntop.html (but I have no idea how it will behave on a busy wire - seeing a lot of connections - over a longer time) 2) MRTG /usr/ports/net/mrtg http://www.mrtg.org provides you with some scripts in it's contrib/ to monitor bandwith by using 'ipfw count' rules (it produces nicely configurable graphs in a min. 5min interval) best regards, Frank Reppin -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message