From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bert hubert ahu@ds9a.nl Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 14:46:34 +0000 Subject: [LARTC] IMPT!!! - What software to use to gauge if Bandwidth control is working/successful ?? Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org 
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 10:38:15PM +0800, Rick Goh Siow Mong wrote:
> How does one know if the traffic to a machine has indeed being limited to say 64Kbps?
> 
> What software are you using to gauge this? Can this software show graphically in real-time the amount of data to this machine?

'iptraf' is very good for 'now' measurements. 'mrtg' takes 5 minute
averages, which is also very useful.

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