[afnog] - mrtg bandwidth measurement

[Habib Mohammedaman]

Thanks for your response !!!

i think you get me and i attach the netmap of mine .

what i want is to measure the bandwidth we get fron the ISP ? if that
possible or it should beonly on the cisco Router ?

Regards


Habib M.


On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic.fr>wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 04:22:19PM +0300,
>  Habib Mohammedaman <habibhma at gmail.com> wrote
>  a message of 48 lines which said:
>
> > our network connection is coming through a cisco router and then directly
> to
> > a linux box which is our firewall and gateway i do have mrtg on it and
> try
> > to see the NIC activities . But i wana try to know the bandwidth that we
> r
> > getting on the linux interface on the linux the exact bandwith that the
> > ISPgive us .
>
> The last sentence is not really clear. You can install a SNMP agent on
> the Linux box (net-snmp, for instance) and direct MRTG at it. You will
> get the actual throughput (bandwidth is not the proper word) on the
> NIC.
>
> Knowing the throughput on the link to the Internet (which may be
> different if there are other machines besides the Linux box or if the
> Cisco chats with pals on the Internet) indeed requires access to the
> Cisco (if I understand your setup).
>
> > i am doing this b/c here the cisco router are not in our authority.
>
> Managing a local network when the last router is not under your
> authority is extremely challenging, to say the least. May be the
> people who manage the router may give you a SNMP read access? It would
> be quite sufficient for MRTG.
>
>


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Habib M.
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