Monitor

albertldee · Post by **albertldee** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 12:24 pm

is there a router or switch that will let me be able to monitor network traffice something that will show a graph of the network traffice i would like to monitor all traffice on all pc on netowork

thanks

YoshiMon · Post by **YoshiMon** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 1:57 pm

Any router that supports SNMP can use MRTG: http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/

Good stuff.

loop2kil · Post by **loop2kil** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 2:42 pm

A nice homemade router using one of the various linux firewalls should be able to do what you need. I use Ipcop on an old pentium 3 system...just need 2 NICS and your good to go.

here's a picture of my ipcop traffic graph to see if it's what your looking for.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 4:49 pm

Another top notch system for SNMP devices....Cacti.

Are you looking for usage of individual PCs? Or on the network as a whole?

I run a *nix router distro called PFSense, it has similar basic graphs like Loopy shows above with his IPCop, but I also installed an additional plugin called BandwidthD....which can break down usage by individual PCs.