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Router Bandwidth Monitoring Tool

  • 04-08-2005 3:40pm
    #1
    Wolverine_1999
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    Yo,

    I have a Netgear DG834 router and am looking for a software tool to monitor the traffic going through the WAN port. I have DU Meter on my PC but that monitors traffic on the LAN port, which collects all the LAN traffic as well.....Any ideas? I can software that needs to be web hosted as well.

    Thanks!


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  • #2
    ntlbell
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    mrtg?


  • #3
    Wolverine_1999
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    ntlbell wrote:
    mrtg?

    heh, i was just after downloading that and haven't tried it out yet, any good? I see HEANET use it....


  • #4
    ntlbell
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    Wolverine_1999 wrote:
    heh, i was just after downloading that and haven't tried it out yet, any good? I see HEANET use it....

    It's very good, you might also look at http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/ it's basically mrtg but alot quicker you can monitor just about anything.


  • #5
    Wolverine_1999
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    anyone other gui software available for easy configuration? I'd have the time to setup a more complicated counter but an already made GUI interface would be a lot more convenient. Thanks


  • #6
    JNive
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    prtg is easy to use, and free if only using 1 monitor.


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  • #7
    lotas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 932 ✭✭✭lotas


    I have been using PRTG for the last few months now, and it has been monitoring my Linksys WRT54g, and it works great. also tells you stuff like how much traffic has gone though. if using this, i would advice setting it as a service and maybe having a dedicated machine, just for monitoring it as a service.


  • #8
    Wolverine_1999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,013 ✭✭✭Wolverine_1999


    I don't have any smtp or sntp or whatever it's called port on the Netgear router though, so i can't use prtg.


  • #9
    lotas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 932 ✭✭✭lotas


    for mrtg, prtg or even RRD tool, you need SNMP. i dont know of anything else. Sorry about that.


  • #10
    Snowbat
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    This won't be much use to you if your router doesn't support SNMP but I came across something called Samurize that nobody's mentioned yet.

    http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,12711474
    (Note: Alchemy is a 3rd party firmware for the Linksys WRT54G)


  • #11
    Wolverine_1999
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    Snowbat wrote:
    This won't be much use to you if your router doesn't support SNMP but I came across something called Samurize that nobody's mentioned yet.

    http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,12711474
    (Note: Alchemy is a 3rd party firmware for the Linksys WRT54G)

    that looks pretty good snowbat, thanks for the info!


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