From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 17 11:33:47 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CC7516A4AC for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:33:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhary@unsane.co.uk) Received: from vps1.solepartners.com (vps1.solepartners.com [85.233.167.66]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD27313C4A3 for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:33:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhary@unsane.co.uk) Received: (qmail 30253 invoked from network); 17 Aug 2007 11:33:45 -0000 Received: from 150.117-84-212.staticip.namesco.net (HELO prawn.unsane.co.uk) (212.84.117.150) by vps1.solepartners.com with SMTP; 17 Aug 2007 11:33:45 -0000 Message-ID: <46C58798.8080707@unsane.co.uk> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 12:33:44 +0100 From: Vince User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070816) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eric F Crist References: <53A8E90E-86D9-4357-B54F-BEE437D025E5@secure-computing.net> In-Reply-To: <53A8E90E-86D9-4357-B54F-BEE437D025E5@secure-computing.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Questions User Subject: Re: Real-Time traffic monitor? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:33:48 -0000 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"