Network Monitoring

[A. Khattri]

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 ...

You could put a box inside the network running MRTG to graph each
machine's bandwidth... Also the web-based Cacti has a nice interface to
setup RRD to do something similar.


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