Network Monitoring

[Wil McGilvery]

Ethereal is a great tool. Use it to capture traffic to and from the Ethernet.

Regards,

Wil McGilvery
Manager
Lynch Digital Media Inc

         

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-----Original Message-----
From: linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org [mailto:linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org] On Behalf Of A. Khattri
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 11:36 PM
To: Linux tips and tricks
Subject: Re: Network Monitoring

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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