Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 12:33:44 +0100 From: Vince <jhary@unsane.co.uk> To: Eric F Crist <ecrist@secure-computing.net> Cc: Questions User <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Real-Time traffic monitor? Message-ID: <46C58798.8080707@unsane.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <53A8E90E-86D9-4357-B54F-BEE437D025E5@secure-computing.net> References: <53A8E90E-86D9-4357-B54F-BEE437D025E5@secure-computing.net>
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Eric F Crist wrote: > Hey all, > > I've got a fairly heavy-duty machine doing firewalling for my network, > and the VAST majority of it's processing power is going unused. As > such, I'd like to put X on this box, attach a monitor, and display a > series of real-time traffic graphs. Does anyone know what the best > software to use for this would be? > not sure about X programs but there is always iftop or pktstat in ports/net-mgmt if you just want something realtime (no good for graphing etc though i'm afraid.) Some of the the plugins for things like sysutils/gkrellm(2) do things like traffic graphs but you really dont want them on a firewall. If you dont need absolute realtime then just enable bsnmp on the internal interface and run something like mrtg or cacti (or even a very quick and dirty script using rrdtool via cron) against it. Vince > Thanks! > > ----- > Eric F Crist > Secure Computing Networks > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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