Stephen,

use iptraf on your server - 

Will give u details on IP, TCP, UDP ICMP, and will give u totals on
incoming and outgoing rates on a specific interface!

Right now, my dear provider is offering a paltry 570kbits/sec managing
only 89packets/sec

Brian


On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 09:33 +0300, Stephen S. Musoke wrote:

> Reinier,
> 
> Thanks, however this seems to be for Windows Updates. What I am looking for
> is a way to monitor the bandwidth passing through a NIC that's connecting me
> to the Internet (my gateway), so that I can identify what kind of traffic is
> going out and coming in. 
> 
> My ISP tells me that my link is saturated, but they cannot provide me with
> any graphs/data/information, so seems like I have to do the hard work
> myself. 
> 
> Stephen 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Reinier Battenberg [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 9:10 AM
> To: Linux Users Group Uganda
> Subject: Re: [LUG] Bandwidth Monitoring on a NIC
> 
> Flash it with IPcop, i would say.
> 
> Then install the http://update-accelerator.advproxy.net/ and see how all
> your 
> winblows updates get cached.
> 
> That will give you less traffic to monitor :-)
> 
> 
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