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Re: [PLUG] Cool bandwidth tool...
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Actually, after checking out bandwidthd I started looking into others.
Bandwidthd has problems on FreeBSD - for some reason it uses 99% of the
CPU even though it claims to use very little cpu.
After looking at a few others, I finally ended up with pmacct
(http://www.ba.cnr.it/~paolo/pmacct/). Its just a raw engine for bpf
and will log anything you want to a mysql or postgresql database. It
can aggregate on src/dst ip's, src/dst ports, you can modify the
sampling rate, do total transfer counters over specified timeframes,
and so on. That is actually more up my ally. Now I can gather the raw
numbers I want, and built my own interface on top of it (make a few
custom graphs in Perl with GD::Graph).
-john
On Jun 22, 2005, at 6:23 PM, gyoza@comcast.net wrote:
John Von Essen wrote:
Just stumbled across a tool called bandwidthd
(http://bandwidthd.sourceforge.net). Compiles nicely, and is a really
nice tool for monitoring bandwidth usage across multiple IP's on a
single host. You don't really have to configure it as it "figures"
out which IP's are pushing data on your machine.
I played with the utility. It isn't too useful for a single PC, but
it would be nice for monitoring an entire network. It doesn't give
much detail about the traffic, but it clearly shows the high bandwidth
users.
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