DIY usage meter?

[latinos986-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org (Franco castro)]

I really don't understand what do you need, but maybe munin is what you are
looking for, it make a nice graphs and is based in plugins, take a look,
maybe is what you need :)

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Matthew Gillen <me-5yx05kfkO/aqeI1yJSURBw at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On 03/17/2010 03:09 PM, R. Luoma wrote:
> > Can one setup an linux-based router with multiple
> > network ports so that it will record
> > the flow of bytes through whatever interface
> > one has to the internet?
>
> "usage meter" and "record the flow of bytes" mean different things to me,
> so
> I'm not sure exactly what you're asking for.
>
> I like 'iptraf' as a simple command-line based monitoring (runs locally on
> the
> machine in question).  It allows you to view aggregate stats for each
> interface (see: General Interface statistics), view per-protocol stats for
> a
> specific interface (see: Detailed Interface statisics), monitor individual
> TCP
> connections, etc.
>
> If you want pretty graphs and multi week histories, use mrtg+apache (will
> allow you to montior other machines as well via SNMP).
>
> Matt
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