Monitoring Bandwidth

[atwinix]

Hello everyone!

I am trying to build a FreeBSD router and I am almost done with setting up a system.

I want to write a script that will monitor bandwidth usage and store the statistics, from which I can generate graphs and display quota consumption (ISPs offer fixed quotas in Australia).

Any idea how I could do that? Are there any applications for FreeBSD that already do that??

Your help is greatly appreciated.

With thanks,

atwinix

 

[FryShadow]

You can try ntop, which is easy to configure and it has a graph too

/usr/ports/net/ntop

 

[SirDice]

net/ntop is quite nice indeed but it has quite a lot of dependencies. net-mgmt/mrtg is a bit more difficult to configure but it has a lot less dependencies. net-mgmt/nrg is similar to MRTG.

 

[FryShadow]

net/ntop is quite nice indeed but it has quite a lot of dependencies. net-mgmt/mrtg is a bit more difficult to configure but it has a lot less dependencies. net-mgmt/nrg is similar to MRTG.

Yup, I you want to install ntop monitoring, make sure you upgrade xcb-proto and libxcb to the latest one, otherwise the installation will be failed.

we have another one, cacti!

 

[Mormegil]

I like net-mgmt/darkstat

http://dmr.ath.cx/net/darkstat/