Quoth Craig Coles, > I am looking for a tool to monitor the through-put of my connection to the > internet. I want to know if my connection is maxing out, or my users just > have slow connections to the internet. Is there a debian package to do > this, or a recommendation otherwise? Can these tools determine what kind of > traffic it is (http,ftp,etc.)?
If you're just after a rough, visual, estimate of useage, have a look at something like xnetload, or the network monitors of gkrellm (gkrellm is a great tool for getting a quick visual summary of the state of your system). cheers, d. -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches Criminologist/Linux Geek | As my head fell in the basket, http://killfilter.com | And was everybody dancing on the casket... PGP (GnuPG): A136E829 | - TBMG, "Dead"
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