RE: Bandwidth monitor/management

["Brian Bemis" <brian_bemis () hotmail com>]

If you're going to go the SNMP monitoring route, I'd suggest using Cacti
(it's based on the RRDtool). Once you get it going it's much easier to add
devices and maintain than MRTG. Plus the graphs look prettier ;)

www.cacti.net


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gettin Phunky [mailto:phunkodelic () gmail com]
> Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 9:52 AM
> To: craig () codestorm org
> Cc: security-basics () securityfocus com
> Subject: Re: Bandwidth monitor/management
>
> We use MRTG too.  Easy to setup and opensource.  Can use it to monitor
> all kinds of stuff.
>
> On 3/29/06, Craig Van Tassle <craig () codestorm org> wrote:
> > On Tue, March 28, 2006 11:28 pm, anon () somefin de wrote:
> > > I hope this is the right list to post this. we are looking for
> hardware
> > > bandwidth monitoring/management solution. Has any of you have
> experince
> > > with that ? Another thing i want to know is in which sceneario a
> hardware
> > > bandwidth solution should be deployed? ie it should be deployed after
> or
> > > before the firewall in the network or it should be deployed in the lan
> ?
> > > any inputs are appreciated. Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Well it all depends on what exacly you are watching for? You are looking
> > to see what is going in/out from the lan to the internet or howmuch
> > traffic is being stopped from your firewall.  It all depends really on
> > waht exacly you want to do.
> >
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