ntop would be a good tool for the job - http://www.ntop.org/products/ntop/ On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Yaron <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote: > On Wed, 16 Nov 2011, Raymond Norton wrote: > > I am trying to help a member school get a handle on their Internet >> traffic. >> > > Somewhat off-topic and a SUPER long-shot, but... > > Almost (oh GOD) 20 years ago I was working for an ISP, we'd just got a new > machine to be a dedicated web server because that whole internet thing was > taking off, and the president of the company claimed he was getting bad > response times. We tried telling him that if you're going to click Refresh > 20 times a second you MIGHT get some pages not loading but he wouldn't > listen. > > So we called the people who made the machine. A little outfit by the name > of SGI. > > They came in with one of their computers running their network analysis > program. The thing sat on our network and gave a real-time graph of what > protocols were using what bandwidth. > > Now nevermind that the thing was beautiful and that you could use a camera > to rotate the graph in 3D using actual hand gestures. It was incredibly > USEFUL. To this day I've not seen an easy (i.e., foss) way to get real-time > network traffic graphs like that. Granted, I haven't looked in a while, but > hey. > > Anyone know something like that? > > > If anyone's interested, it didn't show anything wrong with our webserver, > but it DID show that smb was eating up the network. The SGI people and I > agreed that this had nothing at all to do with anything, but in the finest > Dilbert tradition it gave us something to point out to the PHB and say > "Here you go, yell at the NT admin." > > > -Yaron > > -- > ______________________________**_________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/**mailman/listinfo/tclug-list<http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list> > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Robert Radtke Hutman Inc robert at hutman.net 1710 N. Douglas Dr. #285 612.843.1400 Minneapolis, MN 55422 #!/hutman~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20111116/5a993143/attachment-0001.html>