Network Monitoring

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Ben Duncan wrote:
> Anyone know of a good network monitor tool (for Linux)?
>
> One of my customers has a T1, and for some reason, something is eating up
> bandwidth. A test on one of those "test my bandwidth" sites shows I am only
> getting about 18K thru.
>
> I cannot convince the Windows Admin that she has something wrong or there is
> something going on. Her answer "Well, I'll just reboot the PDC and servers" ...
>
> I would like to be the hero and isolate what (or who) is eating up the bandwidth ...

tcpdump, or one of its more intelligent front ends, might be useful.  That
would let you see what is sucking down the bandwidth and where it is
originating.

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