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Date:      Thu, 04 Mar 2004 01:34:26 -0800
From:      Roop Nanuwa <roop@hqst.com>
To:        ben@lanwest.com.au
Cc:        Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Monitoring bandwidth usage by user
Message-ID:  <4046F822.9090606@hqst.com>
In-Reply-To: <4046EE6B.6080207@lanwest.com.au>
References:  <40467A74.1060107@hqst.com> <4046EE6B.6080207@lanwest.com.au>

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Benjamin Meade wrote:

> Roop Nanuwa wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>       Is there any way to get live (or even just logged) monitoring 
>> of bandwidth
>> usage by user instead of just an aggregate amount for the entire 
>> machine/interface?
>
>
> Squid can do it. There are quite a few perl scripts that can build a 
> webpage from the log files and show you nice pretty graphs and such.
>
> This is assuming that by user you mean machines that are accessing the 
> net through a gateway.
>
Actually, no. These are all users who are logged into a single box (they 
have shell accounts). I
wanted to monitor each user's bandwidth usage individually to prevent abuse.

--roop



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