I personally like using rrdtool with snmp. Its a bit more difficult to setup than some tool like iptraf, but it gives you a nice graph of whats going on. It also keeps a set history of data so you can view trends, etc. Jay ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kenneth Porter" <shiva@sewingwitch.com> To: "LARTC List" <LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl> Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 1:29 PM Subject: [LARTC] Measuring throughput > I'm running a game server which uses a lot of UDP traffic on a 4 Mbps > connection. I'd like to figure out how much of that I'm really using > (inbound vs. outbound) and I'd like to verify my bandwidth cap. > > The host also runs a web and FTP server and I'm running wshaper to keep > those from hurting game traffic. But I'm concerned that it might be > artificially capping my bandwidth and that I might need to tweak it. > > I've got ntop running (http://matureasskickers.net:3000/) and it tells me > that in a massive game last night (50 players) I used 2.2 Mbps, but I don't > know whether that's inbound, outbound, or the sum of both. Is there another > tool better for this measurement? > > I'd like to simulate lots of game traffic by flooding UDP packets out of > the box (say, to my home system) to verify the bandwidth cap. What tool > would be good for doing that? (The Slapper worm doesn't count! ;)) > _______________________________________________ > LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl > http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/ >
