bandwidth consumption checking in hosts

call_krushna · 11-08-2011, 12:08 PM

Hi Everybody,

Is there any command (like fping ) in linux , to know the host's bandwidth usage in a network .Many times , users are keep downloading huge files as a result network (internet ) becomes very slow. Is there any easy to track that rather going for proxy server. Any suggestion is highly appreciable .

Thanks in advance .

GlennsPref · 11-08-2011, 08:43 PM

Hi, my system has vnstat, I can monitor the bandwidth for each network device.

In my case, eth0, eth1 and ppp0

I monitor vnstat with gkrelm network monitoring (config builtins net).

Hope this helps.

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jthill · 11-08-2011, 09:09 PM

iftop

call_krushna · 11-09-2011, 08:07 AM

Hi GlennsPref and jthill ,

Thanks for post .Iftop helped me alot. Is there any better way of doing that .I want something like it should check every alive host in my network and check their bandwidth usage i.e. if somebody is downloading heavy file .Again thanks both of you .

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-...e-by-host.html

jthill · 11-09-2011, 01:04 PM

If you're going farther than a quick look and into simple network management, you want the Simple Network Management Protocol :-)

google linux snmp, the protocol and toolset are, ahh, somewhat ramified. I believe everything up to and including the high-end ISPs' routers management interfaces talks snmp.