Bandwidth accounting

[Simon Dick]

On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 16:18, Dimitri Aivaliotis wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 16:06:17 +0100
> Simon Dick <simond at irrelevant.org> wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone got any recommendations what tool I could use to measure a
> > customers total bandwidth usage per month via SNMP on a cisco/netgear
> > switch? I currently use my own script but I don't quite trust it to be
> > accurate enough for real use, thanks in advance!
> > 
> 
> I'm trying out RTG (http://rtg.sourceforge.net) right now, and have had some good experiences with it.  It's got an SQL (my or Postgre) backend, so you can do more complex queries than you could with an RRD-based solution because it doesn't average out the data already stored.

That looks promising

> I've also heard some good things about RRFW (http://rrfw.sourceforge.net/), which does use an RRD-based backend, if that's where you'd like to head.

Looks ok, but not quite what I want at the moment :)

Thanks for the suggestion