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Subject: Re: bandwidth monitoring?
To: root@eyelab.psy.msu.edu (Gary Schrock)
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 21:25:41 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Cameron Slye" <cslye@calweb.com>
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> 
> I noticed that one, but from looking at it my initial impression is that it
> can give me the bandwidth useage of a router, but only a router.  The
> machine I'm trying to get these numbers for isn't a router unfortunately.
> Either that or maybe it'd be possible to set up snmp on the machine I want
> to use mrtg on?


Use netstat and a script to get the numbers, mrtg just wants numbers to
graph..  Also you could install the firewalling, I belive that will give you
the info you want.