Bandwidth/network monitoring tools

Bandwidth/network monitoring tools

[Greg Cope]

Hi all,

Anyone got any suggestions for monitoring network usage by hostclient/protocol?

I am occassionally involved with debugging why our internet bandwidth
is "slow" - and I am sure I am not the only person who has been here
and I assume there are some simple tools for this sort of thing.

I am not after debugging tools like netstat, lsof, or tcpdump. 
Excellent as they are, they are too fine grained.

Ideally this would work with our iptables based firewall/router that
does DMZ as well.

Thanks,

Greg

RE: Bandwidth/network monitoring tools

[Baake, Matthias]

Hi,

i had the same problem like you now.
imho the bandwidth daemon (http://bandwidthd.sourceforge.net/) is a nice tool. it generates html output just give it a try.
maybe someone knows better tools.

/matthias

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> Subject: Bandwidth/network monitoring tools
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Anyone got any suggestions for monitoring network usage by 
> hostclient/protocol?
> 
> I am occassionally involved with debugging why our internet bandwidth
> is "slow" - and I am sure I am not the only person who has been here
> and I assume there are some simple tools for this sort of thing.
> 
> I am not after debugging tools like netstat, lsof, or tcpdump. 
> Excellent as they are, they are too fine grained.
> 
> Ideally this would work with our iptables based firewall/router that
> does DMZ as well.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Greg
> 
> 

Re: Bandwidth/network monitoring tools

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 08:43 +0100, Greg Cope wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Anyone got any suggestions for monitoring network usage by hostclient/protocol?
> 
> I am occassionally involved with debugging why our internet bandwidth
> is "slow" - and I am sure I am not the only person who has been here
> and I assume there are some simple tools for this sort of thing.
> 
> I am not after debugging tools like netstat, lsof, or tcpdump. 
> Excellent as they are, they are too fine grained.
> 
> Ideally this would work with our iptables based firewall/router that
> does DMZ as well.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Greg
I'm not sure how granular you want to be.  Have you looked at MRTG or
Etherape? - John
-- 
John A. Sullivan III
Open Source Development Corporation
+1 207-985-7880
jsullivan@opensourcedevel.com

If you would like to participate in the development of an open source
enterprise class network security management system, please visit
http://iscs.sourceforge.net

Re: Bandwidth/network monitoring tools

[Radien Radien]

There is a comprehensive list here, take a look:
 http://www.slac.stanford.edu/xorg/nmtf/nmtf-tools.html


 On 8/16/05, John A. Sullivan III <jsullivan@opensourcedevel.com> wrote: 
> 
> On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 08:43 +0100, Greg Cope wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Anyone got any suggestions for monitoring network usage by 
> hostclient/protocol?
> >
> > I am occassionally involved with debugging why our internet bandwidth
> > is "slow" - and I am sure I am not the only person who has been here
> > and I assume there are some simple tools for this sort of thing.
> >
> > I am not after debugging tools like netstat, lsof, or tcpdump.
> > Excellent as they are, they are too fine grained.
> >
> > Ideally this would work with our iptables based firewall/router that
> > does DMZ as well.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Greg
> I'm not sure how granular you want to be. Have you looked at MRTG or
> Etherape? - John
> --
> John A. Sullivan III
> Open Source Development Corporation
> +1 207-985-7880
> jsullivan@opensourcedevel.com
> 
> If you would like to participate in the development of an open source
> enterprise class network security management system, please visit
> http://iscs.sourceforge.net
> 
> 
> 


-- 
__ Radien__