Simple bandwidth meter under Linux?

I run a Linux box as a router, and want to track my bandwidth on a minute-by-minute basis, as my ISP has only lame meter 2 days behind.

I’m looking for something super-simple that generates a graph I can shove in a web page somewhere. So far mrtg, cricket, and everything I’ve seen so far involving rddtools are way overkill and far too complicated.

Has someone, somewhere, made something that’ll track packets through eth0 with fewer than 10 lines of .conf file to mess with, or is this a do-it-yourself moment? :wink:

If you want instant info from the command line you can install iftop .

If you want something fancier give ntop a try.

iftop isn’t bad - I was using iptraf for command line stuff (it uses ncurses or something) but ntop seems to be just what I’m looking for. An easy configure, with only slightly obtuse web-based output - as soon as I can figure out how to get it to save the info between restarts, I think it’ll be just fine. Thanks! :slight_smile:

Oh, and since no-one appears to have said it yet, welcome to the board! :slight_smile: