Re: [cobalt-users] Bandwidth Tracking

["Jeffery L. JT Vogt" <lfm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Anyone know of a prequisiting software that will allow me to track all
>traffic from ip's?  The only other option I see is setting up my ipchains to
>work with each IP, and then scripting it to save periodically incase of
>reboots etc.. I'd prefer somthing already created if thats not possible I'll
>write it, just have alot of other things in front of it :)

Brian,

Not sure if you're asking to track "hits" or bandwitdth used (bits
transferred).  If the latter, I use and love MRTG, a free package for
*nix that does more than the name (Multi Router Traffic Graph)
implies... it reads SNMP stats (customizable).  Since Cobalt systems
have SNMP agents, this is how I track the bandwidth usage on the
individual IP's (virtual sites) on my systems in a graphical and
statistical fashion.  My customers love it.

-Arf, JT
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