Monitoring bandwidth usage by user

Benjamin Meade ben at lanwest.com.au
Thu Mar 4 00:52:58 PST 2004


Roop Nanuwa wrote:

> Hello all,
>       Is there any way to get live (or even just logged) monitoring of 
> bandwidth
> usage by user instead of just an aggregate amount for the entire 
> machine/interface?

Squid can do it. There are quite a few perl scripts that can build a webpage 
from the log files and show you nice pretty graphs and such.

This is assuming that by user you mean machines that are accessing the net 
through a gateway.

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Benjamin Meade
System Administrator
LanWest Pty Ltd
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