Bandwidth Monitoring program

[Josh Paetzel]

On Tuesday 05 December 2006 23:52, Brett Glass wrote:
> Add a few IPFW "count" rules to count the bytes and packets. Then,
> periodically harvest and reset the counters via a cron job and
> write the results to a file. You can then prepare tables and charts
> which are as simple or as fancy as you please, without resorting to
> SNMP (which isn't secure). A little bit of code in your favorite
> scripting language will do it. And of course you can output to a
> graphing package, though for me a simple histogram using asterisks
> has sufficient precision in most cases.
>
> --Brett Glass
>

Just curious.....but where is he going to run ipfw?  I seriously doubt 
his router can run it, and what good is it going to do him to run it 
on a machine on the network if the network is switched?  It's not 
going to be able to see any of the traffic other than what that 
specific machine is sending/receiving.

-- 
Thanks,

Josh Paetzel