Package to represent network traffic
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Mon Jul 3 14:23:19 UTC 2006
On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 15:38 +0800, Edward Dekkers wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 15:32, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> >
> >>> I once had an installed package that gave a graphical representation of
> >>> traffic on the network, but I can't remember its name. I've tried searching
> >>> yum with a few guesses, without success. Can anyone help?
> >
> >> I think the package you want is called mrtg and is part of the
> >> distribution FC4 and FC5.
> >
> > Mrtg will pull the traffic info via snmp from remote systems
> > and routers. It is easier to use with a tool like cacti that
> > provides a web interface for the setup: http://www.cacti.net/.
> >
> > You can watch your local interface and other system counters
> > with gkrellm.
> >
>
> ntop is extremely cool. Maybe that's the one you were thinking?
>
> Can view via any web browser on (default) port 3000.
>
> Simple RPM install from memory.
>
> Ed.
ntop shows net traffic as is extremely useful but doen not answer the
question of as graph producing program
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Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>
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