[afnog] - mrtg bandwidth measurement

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:38:42PM +0100,
 Phil Regnauld <regnauld at x0.dk> wrote 
 a message of 12 lines which said:

> 	Do you want to measure maximum/burstable available bandwidth, or
> 	bandwidth usage ?

But please let's use more proper words. The first one is "capacity",
the second one "throughput".

> 	For thecking the maximum, something like bing
> 	(http://linux.maruhn.com/sec/bing.html), otherwise MRTG/RRD
> 	will do the trick.

The Internet link of the OP seems to be assymetric. bing is quite bad
with assymetric links.

The ideal method would be to use Netpipe
<http://www.scl.ameslab.gov/netpipe/>. But, unlike bing, it requires
to run a program on both sides of the link.