Bandwidth Statistics

[Jeff Welling]

Good morning Captain Nemo! (Hello all)


I'm trying to go about collecting statistics on the amount of bandwidth
that passes through my gateway in a billing cycle, and given that this
is a fairly common situation, I figure other people must have already
invented that wheel, and likely in multiple flavors colors and designs.

I found a fairly extensive list of some various apps that might be of
help over here

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/bandwidth-monitoring-tools-for-linux.html

But I was wondering what methods ended up actually being chosen by other
members in the community.

Do you track your bandwidth usage, and if so, what do you use and would
you recommend it?

Not on the list linked to above is the program pmacct which I'm
currently using.  It does work, though with plenty of room for
improvement (pmacct's mysql plugin gets backlogged if your SQL server
isn't fast enough or your seeing a lot of traffic or theres too many
records in the sql database table).

Cheers,
Jeff.