Bandwidth Monitering

mejam · Post by **mejam** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 2:24 pm

I need a utility to moniter my bandwidth...i mean a utility that can tell me how much bandwidth was consumed by a particular IP on my local network.. I have MRTG for my gateways and my WAN side....but i want details on every individual network IP for my LAN.....please help..

Manners Taliban · Post by **lambda** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 5:42 pm

do you want to know how much traffic each host on your lan is sending out? do you want to exclude lan-to-lan traffic?

mejam · Post by **mejam** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 5:47 pm

yes i want to know how much traffic a particular IP is sending out....if any utility can plot it out on graph...or any utility that can generate HTML reports...?

eternal peace · Post by **eternal peace** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 8:35 pm

You can use Ntop which can provide bandwidth details per IP and lots of other details as well.

HOWTO: http://www.howtoforge.com/network_monitoring_with_ntop

Manners Taliban · Post by **lambda** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 9:03 pm

yes i want to know how much traffic a particular IP is sending out....if any utility can plot it out on graph...or any utility that can generate HTML reports...?

do you want to exclude lan traffic or don't you?

x2oxen · Post by **x2oxen** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 10:39 pm

you can use bandwidthd as well for this purpose

mudasir · Post by **mudasir** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 11:56 pm

AOA,

There are some good utilities to monitor bandwidth such as NTOP and BANDWIDTHD.

I would also like to know which tool are you using to limit bandwidth on hosts or IP's. If you are using TC you can also use MRTG to create custom graphs of individual hosts. You just have to write a simple script.

azfar · Post by **azfar** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 6:38 pm

I used net/traff port on freebsd for real time monitoring it wont plot you any graph or anything...

hunaid haroon · Post by **hunaid haroon** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 11:33 am

azfar mentioned the following traffic analyzer:

http://darkzone.ma.cx/resources/unix/traffic/

syedbilalmasaud · Post by **syedbilalmasaud** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 4:38 pm

Use cacti for network monitoring

http://www.cacti.net , find out templates according to your need and import in to it