[mrtg] Does MRTG allow checking what IP is using most of bandwidth?

[Volk,Gregory B]

MRTG will not tell you who (what IP) is using the most bandwidth because that information is likely not available through SNMP, and even if it was, MRTG is not meant to collect and analyze per-ip traffic stats.

If you want that kind of data, you need to investigate using Netflow/Sflow/IPFIX to get it from a nearby router or flow-generating device.

Two places to start are...
the flow-tools-ng project: http://code.google.com/p/flow-tools/
...and...
nfdump: http://nfdump.sourceforge.net/




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> Subject: [mrtg] Does MRTG allow checking what IP is using most of
> bandwidth?
> 
> Hi there,
> 
>      Merry X'mas to everyone first :)
> 
>      I have a Fortigate 80C which is a firewall.  I've found that I could configure it
> to work with MRTG to get some nice statistics (and graphs).  Actually, what I
> want to do is to determine what IP addresses are using most of Internet
> bandwidth at any moment (eg during last 1 minute, last 5 minutes, last 10
> minutes, etc).
> 
>      I have not really set up MRTG yet.  I have just parsed through several of
> your documentations to see if it meets my need but I am not sure.  I've seen
> those beautiful graphs in the "Demo", but they are just showing the traffic
> through something (a router, maybe?)
> 
>      Could someone tell me if showing the biggest network consumers is
> possible or not?  What keyword should I use?  Or has anybody ever
> configured a Fortigate 80C to do exactly what I'm looking at?
> 
>      Thanks a lot in advance. :)
> 
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