Measure used bandwidth

Hi folks I just wounder if anyone knows, a program or any way to measure
current bw through my linux router (gentoo ofcourse), and the total amount
of data that has been transfered through it. If u type ifconfig u just get
<RX bytes:248020164 (236.5 Mb) TX bytes:2420366025 (2308.2 Mb)>
which are being reset to 0 again when reaching 9999,99 MB which is annoying
:/ There must be some way to keep track off all the traffic that are being
sent/recieved since many ISPs can do it. I hope someone has an answer

Ulf Herge enlightened us with:

Take a look at snmp and mttr.

Sybren
--
The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?

ntop does what you are looking for, and a lot more ;-)

# emerge -s ntop
Searching...
[ Results for search key : ntop ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]

* net-analyzer/ntop
Latest version available: 3.0
Latest version installed: 3.0
Size of downloaded files: 2,920 kB
Homepage: http://www.ntop.org/ntop.html
Description: ntop is a unix tool that shows network usage like top
License: GPL-2

You might also find nettop useful.

Hth

cacti and/or ntop

http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=cacti
http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=ntop

--
-Geoff

'bwm' or bandwidth monitor is a very
simple tool, it dynamically show the
inbound and outbound datarates on an
interface. Nothing fancy or complicated,
it's just a simple, dynamic interface
bandwidth monitor that is quick and easy
to set up.

You may have to install the sources, as
I used it on debian, some time ago.

Good place to start.

James

'bwm' or bandwidth monitor is a very
simple tool, it dynamically show the
inbound and outbound datarates on an
interface. Nothing fancy or complicated,
it's just a simple, dynamic interface
bandwidth monitor that is quick and easy
to set up.

You may have to install the sources, as
I used it on debian, some time ago.

Good place to start.

James

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2 5th September 09:46 sybren stuvel External User Posts: 1	Measure used bandwidth Ulf Herge enlightened us with: Take a look at snmp and mttr. Sybren -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?

4 5th September 09:46 geoffrey king External User Posts: 1	Measure used bandwidth cacti and/or ntop http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=cacti http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=ntop -- -Geoff

5 5th September 18:40 james External User Posts: 1	Measure used bandwidth 'bwm' or bandwidth monitor is a very simple tool, it dynamically show the inbound and outbound datarates on an interface. Nothing fancy or complicated, it's just a simple, dynamic interface bandwidth monitor that is quick and easy to set up. You may have to install the sources, as I used it on debian, some time ago. Good place to start. James

6 5th September 18:40 james External User Posts: 1	Measure used bandwidth 'bwm' or bandwidth monitor is a very simple tool, it dynamically show the inbound and outbound datarates on an interface. Nothing fancy or complicated, it's just a simple, dynamic interface bandwidth monitor that is quick and easy to set up. You may have to install the sources, as I used it on debian, some time ago. Good place to start. James