Nick Duda, on 11/02/2007 10:24 PM [GMT+500], wrote : > Funny you bring that up....because we did that unintensional some time > back... > > Basically, we have 4 T1's in a brach office, bonded as a multilink > (6mb). Based on this one office bandwidth going out is on average 4.5mb > used with Squid in place. One day we had to make some changes and > stopped serving from the cache...we flatlined at 6mb and the office came > to a scretching halt. > > It was at that point I said, hey I can tell you that the proxy is saving > you at a min. 1.5mb of bandwidth LOL. I then went with the cacti > templates and I get on average 4-5mb saved, some days up to 8mb! > Also look into 'vnstat' a very nice console application is a network traffic monitor for Linux that keeps a log of daily network traffic for the selected interface(s) http://humdi.net/vnstat/ Regards
