--- Derrick MacPherson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Are you searching for something that looks good or something more factual? > > Probably more pretty than extremely accurate. I've actually mirrored a > port on the switch that's to our internet connection, and have ntop > monitoring that. Seems to be working fine, I guess I would like a bit > more of a warm fuzzy feeling that what i'm doing is right. > > > Another question to consider is whether you are interested in bandwidth > > (bytes/sec) or in actual bytes transferred. There are fewer tools that > > provide > > persistent & archivable stats for the latter and I have yet to find one that > > displays the latter in graphical form without it becoming a science project. > > bytes transfered is better, but both appreciated. And ya, it seems like > there's a few solutions, none perfect. I am pushing for the replacement > of our Pix's, my preference is PF on *BSD, but again, they want > something that looks pretty.
I agree that bytes transferred is very nice to have (seems pretty basic). As mentioned by another, there is a small utility called ipfm that does the trick. There are a couple of scripts on the net that process the output into something more useful (bytes for a specified month). For the prettiness factor, pf integrates painlessly with pfstat and symon/syweb. Here is something from pfstat. It shows, well, pf statistics (bytes/sec for the last 12 hours): http://papamike.ca/misc/pass_block_12.png -- Peter __________________________________________________________ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
