Measure system traffic -
Frank Pineau
frank at pineaus.com
Tue Jan 23 19:27:59 UTC 2007
On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 10:19 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>
> My ISP Wildblue limits me to 5 gig's upload and 17 down over a thirty
> day period. For the last nine months this has not been a problem,
> however last month they made a system change and said they were
> measuring usage more accurately. Now we are running perilously close to
> the limits for the last thirty days and I'm not certain why.
>
> We have four computers [FC6, Mac, and W2k] running on the wireless LAN
> which appears as eth0 to my computer. The system is comprised of the
> satellite receiver/modem, a Netgear wireless router, and some Linksys
> wireless bridges and/or adapters. Can someone tell me how I can track
> usage and determine how much each user is consuming?
http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/
Multi Router Traffic Grapher
Reasonably easy to set up, easily adaptable to a multitude of uses.
Or
http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/
RRDTool is a more powerful version of MRTG (more or less). Highly
adaptable. I use it to track weather changes, for example.
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