Network monitoring with FreeBSD

[Vitaliy Tokarenko]

  Try pmacct. This is lightweight and feature-rich tool for accounting and network statistics. 

 http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/net-mgmt/pmacct/

  --- Original message ---
 From: "Kurt Buff" <kurt.buff at gmail.com>
 To: freebsd-net at freebsd.org
 Date: 27 November 2012, 01:16:45
 Subject: Network monitoring with FreeBSD
 
 


> If this belongs on a different list, please let me know...
> 
> I've long used ntop, but the current version in ports is missing a
> feature that I found incredibly useful, and I'm seeking an
> alternative.
> 
> I'm running several small FreeBSD 9 boxen monitoring my HP switches on
> their mirror ports, and ntop 3.x could give the the top 3 talkers when
> I clicked on a graph of the network load statistics, but under 4.x
> that no longer seems to be the case, and 5.x isn't in the ports tree
> yet.
> 
> I'd love to dive deeper into who is talking, and what traffic is
> passing on my network, and I'm pretty dedicated to using FreeBSD, as
> I've not liked any Linux I've ever touched.
> 
> I've perused ports/net and ports/net-mgmt, and there are a bewildering
> number of options. If anyone has recommendations, I'd like to hear it.
> 
> Kurt
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