[plug] Open Source download meters

[Caleb Duggan]

I have very little programming/scripting experience, I would really have  
no idea where to begin. Ideally I would like to have a multiplatform  
download meter so I can run it on all machines in the house and get log  
files with the same structure or, have a linux box acting as a router  
which meters individual computers connected to it aswell. All of the  
solutions people have come up with so far are good for the linux machines  
but unfortunately i can't also run them under OS X easily(haven't made  
them work yet) but I must stay on topic and keep it linux-related, If I  
were to set up a linux box as a router and internet meter, which distro  
should I use?

Thanks

Caleb

On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 22:55:45 +0800, Adrian Chadd <adrian at creative.net.au>  
wrote:

> Has anyone considered, like, writing something that does what
> they want, and then asking the list for pointers if you get stuck?
>
>
> adrian
>
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2007, Arie Hol wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 26 Jul 2007 at 22:09, Gavin Chester wrote:
>>
>> 8<----snip --------->8
>> > updating my own post:
>> > I've been running this little app for a day now and can report that it
>> > is able to handle a greater variety of interfaces, but it is more
>> > 'fickle' and more resource hungry than gkrellm. So,I'll stick with
>> > gkrellm for my needs, especially since I bothered to look and can find
>> > the text file of traffic stats in my /home directory under:
>> > /home/gavin/.gkrellm2/data/net/ppp0
>> >
>>
>> Gavin
>>
>> Excuse my ignorance on this one, but :
>>
>> Have you considered ntop, if not goto :
>>
>>
>> www.ntop.org
>>
>>
>> HTH
>>
>>
>> Regards Arie
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