Re: Bandwidth monitoring
Brian May [bam@snoopy.apana.org.au] wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 13:20, Brian May wrote:
> Just to update my list:
>
> > I have looked at the following:
> >
> > CALAMARIS
> > * pretty good, but only works on squid traffic.
> >
> > NTOP
> > * very friendly user interface, can do just about anything with
> > statistics in an easy way.
> > * doesn't work to well on ISDN adaptor, seems to get all these
> > Ethernet addresses which ISDN simply doesn't have.
> > * I have had problems with it consuming too much memory, almost
> > to the extent of crashing the computer as it thrashes
> > constantly (see bug #123003 and #136627). This might be
> > related to other problems described here.
> > * If you run it on an internal adapter, it doesn't distinguish
> > local vs remote traffic. Local traffic is free, remote traffic
> > isn't (at least here in Australia).
> > * If you run it on an external adaptor, it appears to consider
> > all external hosts as local.
> >
> > ARGUS
> > * Appears pretty good, but the interface is very low level
> > compared with say NTOP, and it seems pretty easy to mistake,
> > eg incoming packets counted for outgoing packets for instance
> > (since argus records everything differently depending on which
> > side initiated the connection).
> > * Maybe something like argus with cricket could be used, however
> > I am not aware of how this can be done very efficiently (eg.
> > without rerunning racount with lots of different rules with a
> > custom script and extracting the data to put into cricket).
> > * Due to lack of documentation, I might be confused ;-).
> >
>
> IPAC-NG
> * Looks good, but list of IP addresses and ports needs to be
> hardcoded before hand. Ok for small networks, not
> large/variable networks.
>
> IPFM
> * Doesn't seem to work on ippp0 port.
> * When run on internal interface, probably tracks internal data
> as well as externel (not sure).
>
> NETRAMET
> * Isn't in Debian, but I think this would be easy.
> * Licensed under an ancient Emacs license (is this really valid?
> Why not the GPL?)
> * No tutorial for beginners.
> * Looks nice and sophisticated compared with the other options.
> * Australian mirror is years out of date (according to timestamp
> on files).
> * http://www2.auckland.ac.nz/net/NeTraMet/
>
> CISCO
> * "Pick up a cheap Cisco router from a failing ISP and export
> its flow statistics?"
> * All my ISDN DOV data goes through a CISCO router at the remote
> end, and I have access to it, but I don't have a clue how to
> use this flow stuff, or what is capabilities are...
>
> IPAUDIT/IPAUDIT-WEB
> * doesn't seem to be in Debian. Its name sounds good ;-)
> * http://ipaudit.sourceforge.net/ipaudit-web/index.html
> * looks good, will try it latter.
> --
> Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>
>
>
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Have you thought about mrtg?
I might be comming into this conversation a day late and a dollar short. :)
I use it with snmp and linux and it works pretty damn well.
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