From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Guy Van Den Bergh guy.vandenbergh@bigfoot.com Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 18:34:46 +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 
bert hubert wrote:

> 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.

Bert,
MRTG works with SNMP to get traffic statistics from remote routers.
How did you get SNMP to work on a Linux box? Have you already used MRTG 
to monitor linux routers?

(for those unfamiliar with SNMP: SNMP is short for Simple Network 
Management Protocol, an IETF standardised protocol, widely used by ISP's 
and enterprises for monitoring and managing their IP networks. It is 
invented for managing large networks, so it is actually of no use for 
the home user.)

Regards,
Guy