Traffic Monitor

[Vasenin Alexander aka BlackSir]

There are also several software implementations of NetFlow exporter. For me
the best is ng_netflow written by Gleb Smirnoff.
	Vasenin Alexander aka BlackSir

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-isp at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-isp at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Wolfpaw - Dale Corse
> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 7:32 PM
> To: 'Spidey Knepscheld'; freebsd-isp at freebsd.org
> Subject: RE: Traffic Monitor

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> Assuming the above scenario is in place (with the Cisco Switch)
> I would recommend IOG (http://www.dynw.com/iog/) for "Per Port"
> monitoring, and if you have access to one of the routers, the
> absolute best way to monitor bandwidth is using the Cisco Flow Export
> features. They can tell you a ton about not only who's using what,
> but where its going, which connection it used (for multi-homing)
> etc.
>
> Not sure if there is an app out there to deal with flow data in that
> Manner, ours is home-grown. A good place to start looking though
> is http://www.splintered.net/sw/flow-tools. This daemon will run on
> Freebsd, and you need it to collect the data.
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