Re: [cobalt-users] Bandwidth Monitoring?

[Jim Euliano <jime@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>The RaQ 3 includes bandwidth management by IP address.  If you can use
>one IP address per site, then you can afford per-site bandwidth
>regulation.  That includes FTP, email and web off the top of my head. 
>The regulation is directional, from server to Internet only.

Rather then regulating traffic, if you just want to "watch" the traffic
levels... there is a gnu program out there for linux called IPTraf.  It is
basically a sniffer that you can run on any linux box connected to the same
local net as the machines you wish to monitor.  You can run it on your Raq2
(I have it installed without any problems) if that is your only linux machine.

It will count and add up all traffic sent to/from each IP address.  The
program, however, is not the greatest in the world and has many other uses
then counting traffic... so there are several downsides to it as well.  For
example,  you must leave it running all the time... and if it stops, the
counters reset to 0. :)

Jim