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Author: Antoine
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] network measurement
On Friday, 7 May at 20:02, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>(...)
>
>My home network accesses the rest of the world using a Linux box, whch
>also hosts a website, does SMTP, does firewalling/masquerading, and has
>a file server for the LAN. That Linux box is the only thing connected
>directly to the DSL modem, which operates in bridge mode.
>
>What tools does Linux have to measure this, so I can find out
>what's going on in my network and why. And maybe even correlate
>measurable activity with the perceived hiatuses.
>
>I'd be surprisd if there were none, Linux being born on the net.
>(I'd even be more surprised if they were easy to use.)
>
>Maybe I do ned to replace my DSL with a higher-capacity connection of
>some kind. But I'd like to see the numbers.
>
>-- hendrik


When nethogs is overkill, I use bandwidthd. It might not be granular enough
for you, though. It's also designed to work through a web interface.

- Antoine

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