Rocco, Thanks I have found the package, using Google and have now installed it. NTOP is now collecting bandwidth stats on both my local and internet NICs.
I will collect data for a few days, and now I have to learn how to interpret the data :-) Thank you all for your support on this Stephen -----Original Message----- From: IT-Doc24 Ltd. - Rocco Radisch [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 9:29 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LUG] Bandwidth Monitoring on a NIC Try this: http://www.ehow.com/how_4468882_install-ntop-windows.html Rocco On 15/10/2010 9:33 AM, 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 :-) > > _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. --------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
