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Monitoring Bandwidth on your server

I use to be on a shared host and I could use there standard tools to look at bandwidth graph.

I now have my sites running on a dedicated server and I have no idea whats going on :P sigh

I have installed webmin on my Fedora core 10 machine and I would like to monitor bandwidth. I was about to setup the bandwidth module and it gave me this warning:

Warning - this module will log ALL network traffic sent or received on the 
selected interface. This will consume a large amount of disk space and CPU
time on a fast network connection.

Isn't there anything I can use that is more light weight and suitable for a NOOB? 'cough' Free tool 'cough'

Thanks for any help.

Solution

  • vnStat is about as lightweight as they come. (There's plenty of front ends around if the graphs the command line tool gives aren't pretty enough.)