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From: "J. Nerius" <jnerius@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bandwidth monitoring
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 11:56:17 -0600
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To: Les Mikesell <les@futuresource.com>
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ntop is great for *short term* monitoring. Generally it will become
unmanageable if run for too long. If you want to monitor and keep stats
over a longer period of time, bandwidthd will probably work better for
you.

J.N.

On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 11:42 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 10:28, patrick.leduc@novipro.com wrote:
> 
> > Does somebody know a program for monitoring bandwidth by ip? I have one 
> > internet interface and I must monitor many ips adresses on this interface. I 
> > tried Ipac-ng and, I worked a lot to do this config but it seems not working 
> > this way.
> 
> Ntop might do what you need.  http://www.ntop.org.  It can summarize and
> sort traffic by address/port/protocol, etc.  I don't use it continuously
> but fire it up for a while if I think something is hogging the network.
>