[C.J. Moof]

My office is served by a single 1.5M DSL line- equivalent to a T1. I need a way to log how often it's running more than a specified throughput level, in hopes of justifying a redundant line to another carrier. (I already have the dual-WAN router to support it).

I've got ntop collecting stats from the network.... while it makes great graphs of recent use, I can't really see a way to get it to tell me how often and for how long do we exceed a certain amount of bandwidth.

Can anyone reccomend an app for this? X11, Fink, Darwinports type things are fine with me. Probably even preferred for this task.

[Scotttheking]

http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/

[mduling]

Originally Posted by Scotttheking

http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/

MRTG is just soooo 90's. Even the author has moved on .....

Use NRG, an RRDtool frontend that is far more efficient and far easier to install and use. I've written a HOWTO for version .99.22. The author is now updating NRG but .99.24 has some problems which won't be fixed until .99.25, along with a cool and valuable new feature. At that time I'll update my HOWTO, but for now use .99.22.

http://homepage.mac.com/duling/halfdozen/

[C.J. Moof]

Good first post! I'll check this one out. Thanks!

[mduling]

NRG is now a DarwinPorts package. Install is very easy now since one command installs NRG and RRDtool.

http://darwinports.org/