Re: Monitoring bandwidth utilization with/on NetBSD

[Stephen Borrill <netbsd%precedence.co.uk@localhost>]

On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, Chris Ross wrote:
>  I have a few NetBSD systems of multiple architectures, including a gateway 
> machine at the edge of a few LANs.  That edge host is running netbsd-5, and 
> using ipfilter.
>
>  Is there an easy way, either within ipf, or with a package in pkgsrc, to 
> get reports on the amount of network traffic used, ideally on a 
> per-IP-address basis?  I want both to know how much bandwidth I'm using on a 
> whole, and which of the machines behind the edge router machine are using how 
> much of it.  Various time-slicing options would be useful too, but mostly I 
> need large-scale (per day/week/month) numbers, not momentary numbers.

net/vnstat might be of some use - it'll even generate graphs for you.

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Stephen