traffic monitoring software

sunlinux · 08-05-2008, 07:20 AM

Hi I am looking for a tool which can count all traffic received on an eth0 interface in bytes/kb/mb etc.

Actually, I am getting huge bill of my adsl connection which show downloaded data day wise.

I want to tally the same using that tool (which can count all incomming traffc n can represent it in kb/mb etc.

Pls. suggest

pwc101 · 08-05-2008, 07:24 AM

I've found ntop to be pretty comprehensive. Requires some admin (adding in an ntop user etc.), but it'll spit out some impressive stats, including telling you which protocol is sending how much data at what time.

www.ntop.org

This is a tutorial for Red Hat distros (RHEL, Fedora, CentOS etc.), so if that's still your distro, it should help you out.

resetreset · 08-06-2008, 03:19 AM

hey dynebolic has at least 2 network "scanning" tools or something i think, try them

jomen · 08-06-2008, 04:34 AM

For a simple solution, if you have a firewall running you can see the amount of data that has gone in or out in the output of the command:

Code:

iptables -nvL

You could make a script that sums it up for you.

Code:

ifconfig ethX

will also show the sum of data that has passed through the interface (since it was up) in the line before the last
Or go with the ready to use option of ntop for example.