On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Jan dela Cruz wrote: > Good evening. > > May I know any suggestions of you guys to monitor FTP speed and performance? > Its because right now I had setup a windows machine w/ scheduled dialer and > FTP program that uploads a 4kb file on a regular interval via dialup to an > ISP, and we parse and record the logfile transactions for the performance. > Quite crude, and maybe not conclusive or detailed... > > Any better alternative?
For better alternative, use NcFTPd. Free for .edu, and if you have 3 simultanous users for the server edition. The NcFTPd client is free. You have to pay if you want 4 or more simultanous users though. The logs it creates are chockful of amazing data. You know how many bytes they transferred, binary or ascii trasnfer type, if they created a subdirectory, what time they initiated the ftp, etc. Basically, shows you everything what happens from the time they connect/disconnect to the ncftpd server. This software has saved me a couple of times of squabble from developers. I just showed them the detailed logs, and they just shut up and never bothered me again. :) One of the few software that has no local/remote root compromise for a couple of years now. I'm assuming many things that make this worthwhile, like your are using VPN or using *nix. Seems from your e-mail that you are using windows? regards, --- Andre M. Varon, SCSA http://andre.lasaltech.com _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
