These are just bandwidth usage report generators. Both are very good
at doing this with very pretty output. Cricket, if I'm not mistaken,
is based on large parts of MRTG.
The original post was looking for a further breakdown by protocol
and user.
You may want to look into WebTrends or the like. You can do bandwidth
utilization by user with WebTrends, but it requires authentication.
Robert
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>>> "Ames, Vicky E" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 6/5/00 11:43:07 AM >>>
>
>MRTG is a great bandwith monitoring tool and is particularly easy to
>configure. The next generation (free) tool for bandwith monitoring is
>Cricket. It is written in Perl and there are quite a few modules you need
>to load to get it working. It's more robust than MRTG but with that comes
>more difficulty in initial configuration. You can check it out here
>http://ee-staff.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/ Hints for set-up were
>in a recent SysAdmin. You can probably find the article online at
>http://www.sysadminmag.com/
>
>Good luck.
>
>Vicky Ames
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: William Schwartz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 9:13 AM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: RE: [FW1] Bandwidth reporting suggestions
>
>I think that a program that a lot of people use for graphing any type of
>network performance is MRTG (www.mrtg.org) Its GNU software that can graph
>basically anything. But it excels in graphing MIB data. So, anything you can
>grab via SNMP you can graph in MRTG. It runs on all kinds of platforms, from
>Linux to NT.
>
>Hope it helps.
>Will
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 9:02 AM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: [FW1] Bandwidth reporting suggestions
>
>Im currently involved in a project to revamp our security policy. In order
>to convince the executives here that we need to include a policy concerning
>video\audio streaming and various other network hogs, I need to be able to
>show that it has an effect on our network. In other words, I need proof
>that it's a problem. I'm currently hunting for products that will allow me
>to report on what various types of packet traffic is being sent across my
>pipe at any given time. I thought that perhaps some of you might have a
>few suggestions as far as where to look. Products such as Checkpont's
>Floodgate are accomplishing alot more than I really need to and I'm looking
>to avoid a hefty pricetag. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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