Re: Bandwidth Accounting

On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 01:50:41PM +0000, Gavin Westwood wrote:
> What do other people/companies on this list use for user bandwidth
> accounting on their server(s)?
>
> At the moment I don't have anything proper in place, although I check up
> on webalizer for each website's usage, and used ipac-ng to keep an eye
> on throughput by protocol and in total. I know that none of my users
> can have reached their limits from ipac-ng's output and knowing my own
> usage, however, having just upgraded the server to Etch, ipac-ng doesn't
> work properly any more, just giving errors, so I ended up removing it.
>
> What options are there?

rrdtool (http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/) is the first one that springs to mind.

MRTG (http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/) is another tool, which is quite nice for graphs.

Both ought to be packaged for etch.

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