Traffic Statistics with MRTG

If you need to generate nice graph for your network traffic for every network card interface you can use MRTG (the example is for FreeBSD5.4) . 1. Install MRTG and snmp packages #pkg_add ucd-snmp-4.2.6_3.tbz #cd /usr/ports/net-mgmt/mrtg #make install 2. Start snmpd #/usr/local/sbin/snmpd 3. Generate MRTG config file #cd /usr #/usr/ports/net-mgmt/mrtg/work/mrtg-2.11.1/bin/cfgmaker --global 'WorkDir:/home/mrtg/public_html' --global 'Options[ ]:bits, growright' --output /home/mrtg/public_html/mrtg.cfg' This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it 4. Run MRTG #mrtg /home/mrtg/public_html/mrtg.cfg You could add this line into contab to run every 5 minutes. If you want a particular design for your graph page you could only use the pictures generated for traffic.