Yeah, I'm looking at using Trinux.  Comes with a lot of admin packages
and hopefully won't be much of a headache to setup.



> George Luft wrote:
> 
> No, none.  iptraf comes with trinux.  Is that the small distro that
> you plan to use?   Don't know about ipmeter.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Todd MacDougall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 10:24 AM
> > To: George Luft
> > Cc: Brad Fritz; Mark Ivey; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [leaf-user] bering: monitoring bandwidth?
> >
> >
> > George,
> >
> > any experience with any of the other monitoring apps, such as
> > iptraf or
> > ipmeter?
> >
> >
> > Todd
> >
> > George Luft wrote:
> > >
> > > IPAUDIT is a great tool--especially for finding those
> > bandwidth hogs.  But I
> > > would run it on a separate box.
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Todd MacDougall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 9:25 AM
> > > > To: Brad Fritz
> > > > Cc: Mark Ivey; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Subject: Re: [leaf-user] bering: monitoring bandwidth?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > 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.
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