Re: Network Monitoring recommendation
> I am looking for a tool to monitor the through-put of my connection to
> the internet. I want to know if my connection is maxing out, or my
> users just have slow connections to the internet. Is there a debian
> package to do this, or a recommendation otherwise?
if you want something simple get the mrtg and mrtg-utils debian packages.
that will give you nice graphs of your bandwidth utilization. if you have
a cisco of snmp capable switch it can also monitor bandwidth utilization
of that. the mrtg-utils are three small programs that will generate stats
for mrtg (apache usage, ip usage and cpu load) from a linux server.
> Can these tools determine what kind of traffic it is (http,ftp,etc.)?
no. for that check out ntop or maybe ipac. basically just search
freshmeat, there's lots of stuff out there and it just depends exactly
what you want.
adam.
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