Bandwidth Statistics

[James McDonald]

On 02/03/10 16:23, Jeff Welling wrote:
> 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.
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