B/W Monitoring with IPFW

[Tony Holmes]

I have simply gotten buried in the many options for monitoring and
graphing b/w data and just need a pointer from experienced people
at solutions.

I have a dedicated FreeBSD 4.10 (yeah it's old) firewall with IPFW
and the appropriate counter rules installed. Each counter rule has
an in and out rule for the boxes (contained in a Class-C block) that
I wish to monitor.

I have a dedicated monitoring box for presenting of data. Collecting
every 5 mins will be the standard.

I wish to have a delve-down of the following:

  Level 1: Summary of all traffic in/out
  Level 2: Summary of host in/out - these will be grouped by IP/function
	   I use dedicated server/jails for functions (http on one, ftp one
	   another, etc)
  Level 3: Detail of each individual IP

I've gotten lost in the options - mrtg, rrdtool, cacti... using custom script,
snmpd... the list goes on. In all my years I've never done this part myself and
now I find I need to.

So a pointer to a how to, recommended software, anything to help sort my out 
and clear the confusion would be very much appreciated.

TIA!

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Tony Holmes

Ph: (416) 993-1219

Founder and Senior Systems Architect
Crosswinds Internet Communications Inc.