Network Monitoring

David Bandel david.bandel
Fri Feb 18 10:30:00 PST 2005


On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 21:20:17 -0600, Ben Duncan <bns at meta3.net> 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 ...
> 
> Thanks ...
> 

Ben, I just use: tcpdump -ni eth#
on the system (assuming they're using a Linux router/firewall).

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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