Re: Real-Time traffic monitor?
Eric F Crist wrote: Hey all, I've got a fairly heavy-duty machine doing firewalling for my network, and the VAST majority of it's processing power is going unused. As such, I'd like to put X on this box, attach a monitor, and display a series of real-time traffic graphs. Does anyone know what the best software to use for this would be? not sure about X programs but there is always iftop or pktstat in ports/net-mgmt if you just want something realtime (no good for graphing etc though i'm afraid.) Some of the the plugins for things like sysutils/gkrellm(2) do things like traffic graphs but you really dont want them on a firewall. If you dont need absolute realtime then just enable bsnmp on the internal interface and run something like mrtg or cacti (or even a very quick and dirty script using rrdtool via cron) against it. Vince Thanks! - Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Real-Time traffic monitor?
Hey all, I've got a fairly heavy-duty machine doing firewalling for my network, and the VAST majority of it's processing power is going unused. As such, I'd like to put X on this box, attach a monitor, and display a series of real-time traffic graphs. Does anyone know what the best software to use for this would be? Thanks! - Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Real-Time traffic monitor?
On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 01:03:54PM -0500, Eric F Crist wrote: Hey all, I've got a fairly heavy-duty machine doing firewalling for my network, and the VAST majority of it's processing power is going unused. As such, I'd like to put X on this box, attach a monitor, and display a series of real-time traffic graphs. Does anyone know what the best software to use for this would be? For collecting data, I use pfstat. With a perl script and gnuplot I create graphs from that data. With telak (http://julien.danjou.info/telak.html) I put those graphs on the root window. See http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/freebsd/index.html#monitor Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgp0QBG9Xdaar.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Real-Time traffic monitor?
In response to Eric F Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hey all, I've got a fairly heavy-duty machine doing firewalling for my network, and the VAST majority of it's processing power is going unused. As such, I'd like to put X on this box, attach a monitor, and display a series of real-time traffic graphs. Does anyone know what the best software to use for this would be? You have lots of choices: MRTG, Cacti, SmokePing, ntop are some that I've used that come to mind. Which one is best really depends on you and your situation. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Real-Time traffic monitor?
On 8/16/07, Eric F Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, I've got a fairly heavy-duty machine doing firewalling for my network, and the VAST majority of it's processing power is going unused. As such, I'd like to put X on this box, attach a monitor, and display a series of real-time traffic graphs. Does anyone know what the best software to use for this would be? I wouldn't put anything on it that isn't directly related to its mission. At most, I'd suggest putting net-snmp on it, denying access from the untrusted side(s), and polling the box with mrtg/cacti/nagios from another machine. Better, I think would be to put ntop on another machine and mirror the port to which the firewall is attached. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
