Re: [OT] Measuring network traffic AND Three Broadband

["Rob Iles" <rob.iles@xxxxxxxxx>]

Surprised nobody has mentioned MRTG yet!

http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/

Have been using it for years - it's free, very customisable, and there's a
lot of community support for it.

If you go for it - do a little reading on "rrdtool" - as a
replacement back
end database for it (it's a supported option) - and makes it even better
than it is out of the tin.

it can do much more than traffic monitoring too - - anything with an SNMP
interface can be grabbed - and WMI is integrated to - - see

http://snmpboy.msft.net/

for a nice example. click on the graphs to drill down.



Regards,

Rob


On 12/11/2007, Marc Fuller <groups@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   Hey Keith,
>
> I use CACTI. It's free and fairly simple to setup. Gives me all sorts
of
> graphs etc and can collect data from lots of different ways (I use
SNMP
> from my Draytek).
>
> http://cacti.net/
>
> Cheers
>
> Marc
>
>
> Keith Doxey wrote:
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Is there a free or trial utility that will allow me to measure
traffic
> > from
> > a machine to outside its own subnet.
> >
> > eg. machine is 192.168.0.xxx and I dont want to measure trafic to
other
> > machines within the house but want to measure everything passing
> > through the
> > router to my ADSL connection.
> >
> > Ideally I would like to be able to reset the traffic counter so I
can
> see
> > just how much typical activities use eg Downloading a whole days
emails,
> > reading and replying to a forum etc.
> >
> > I am thinking of getting GPRS modem from "Three" but
need an idea of
> > typcial
> > usage so that I can decide whether to go for the 1GB or 3GB
option.
> >
> > I know many people here use T-Mobiles Web n Walk but I cant
justify
> > havign a
> > contract mobile phone as I rarely use the phone I already have
and the
> > deal
> > from Three sounds a perfect way of getting affordable data when I
am
> > out and
> > about.
> >
> > Does anyone have experience of the Three Broadband service ?
> >
> > Also, with GPRS, is is possible to maintain a connection whilst
> > driving from
> > cell to cell as you can with a phone call or do lose and remake
the
> > connection. eg would streaming a radio station work whilst
driving
> around?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Keith
> >
> >
>
>
>


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