From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 27 15:34:46 2010 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 07AB6106568B for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:34:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from mail.potentialtech.com (internet.potentialtech.com [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D07198FC13 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:34:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (pr40.pitbpa0.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.202]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6304EF7419; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:34:44 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:34:43 -0500 From: Bill Moran To: Glenn McCalley Message-Id: <20100127103443.90bbc302.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <10713CBA99A4455684AA7CB50185C3A3@GLENN2> References: <10713CBA99A4455684AA7CB50185C3A3@GLENN2> Organization: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.7.1 (GTK+ 2.18.5; i386-portbld-freebsd7.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MRTG vs. character of traffic 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: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:34:46 -0000 In response to "Glenn McCalley" : > OK so the data center says my traffic is unreasonable. > Turns out they may be correct. > MRTG is showing one server with a totally unreasonable level of outbound > traffic so now I know which machine to study. Are there recommendations for > a tool to tell me what KIND of traffic, not just the gross bit rate? I want > to find that idiot that's causing all the bandwidth. ntop -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/