Mark, I too have been looking at bandwidth monitoring with Bering. I have used MRTG in the past and it gives nice graphical output of usage but it isn't really sufficient for any useful accounting purposes. For example, if you're simply trying to find out who is hogging all the bandwidth on any given day then MRTG may serve you well. However, if you want to know a little more about what that user is doing then you may have to look at another application such as IPAduit, IPTraf, IPMeter, etc. Here is a link with decent list of monitoring apps: http://www.mirrors.wiretapped.net/security/network-monitoring/00-network-monitoring-README.txt
Unfortunately I can't give any guidance on any of these products, especially in conjunction with Bering. I am in the process of setting up Bering on one machine to act as my router/firewall and another light-wieght distro of linux (with IPAudit) on another box which will port-mirror the Bering box. I want to keep any kind of monitoring app off the Bering box for performance reasons. Cheers, Todd Brad Fritz wrote: > > On 26 Aug 2002 22:32:04 MST Jack Coates wrote: > > > On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 22:16, Mark Ivey wrote: > > > What is the best way to monitor bandwidth usage with Bering? Ideally, I > > > would like to run something like MRTG on the Bering box itself with graphs > > > drawn in the weblet, but I realize MRTG requires perl. How do other people > > > monitoring their bandwidth? > > > > > > -Mark Ivey- > > > > > > > Run MRTG on some other Unix box and just put net-snmp on the LEAF box. > > It's still a big whack of space, but better than Perl :-) > > If integrating the logs with weblet is important, you could always > scp them at regular intervals from the MRTG (or rrdtool[1]) host > to the Bering machine. > > --Brad > > [1] http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/rrdworld/ > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old > cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! > https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user > SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html -- Todd MacDougall Technical Project Lead - IKON Image Systems Solutions IKON The Way Business Gets Communicated 10 King Street East Suite 900 Toronto, Ontario M5C 1C3 Phone: 416-363-8945 Ext 209 Fax: 416-363-2195 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.ikon-iss.com ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
