SUMMARY: Console Bandwidth Monitoring?

[Warren Togami <warren@togami.com>]

Thanks for the suggestions.  I have figured out since writing the
initial post that my original bandwidth monitoring script was actually
giving me reasonably accurate data.  A few people sent me improved
versions of my script, while others suggested a few useful utilities
that can show similar information.

statnet - http://www.wilcoxon.org/~sewilco/statnet.html
simple utility to show data, broken down to protocols and ports
sar - "man sar"
sysstat utility that is already in my system.  Very useful!

Didn't get a chance to try these others
iptraf - http://cebu.mozcom.com/riker/iptraf/
sasact - http://rousse.pm.org/sasacct
watchbw - http://cory.charltonfamily.org/software/watchbw/

Sorry I didn't write more details about my setup.  I am running vsftpd
via xinetd on a Red Hat server as a high capacity FTP download mirror
for various Linux and BSD distributions.  (BTW if anyone knows anyone at
Red Hat, they haven't responded to my request for rsync access for
several months.)  I wanted a bandwidth monitoring utility to keep track
of our bandwidth usage.

My next step would be to use MRTG to graph bandwidth usage over time. 
This would require somehow making an SNMP server to have the Linux
interface bandwidth available for polling.  Does anyone know if this is
possible?

Thank you!
Warren Togami
warren@togami.com
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