Ntop is a fantastic GNU (free) Linux program that is brainless to setup and use, and it provides everything in a nice easy HTML web front end.
Has anyone tried it on an e-smith server? I will try it tommorow if I have time.
Heres some screen shots
http://www-serra.unipi.it/~ntop/ntop1.gifhttp://www-serra.unipi.it/~ntop/ntop2.gifDownload at
http://www-serra.unipi.it/~ntop/What does it provide...
graph of bandwidth throughput (use) for every few minutes, hour and day.
Each IP address using the internet, the amount of their use and where they have visited.
Colorfull charts and graphs of your network traffic and its breakdown (ftp, http etc.)
I think this should be a part of e-smith because it needs no setup or maint, just install it and let it run. It auto discovers your network setup and starts collecting stats. Put a link to stats on the e-smith management page maybe.
It can be a memory hog on a low end machine, but memory is cheap considering the information this will provide, maybe have it off by default and add an on/off (start monitoring/stop monitoring) button.
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