bandwidth tools

Bandwidth Management Tools is a total bandwidth management solution for Linux and can be used for firewalling, traffic graphing, and shaping.

Bandwidth Management Tools is not based on any currently-available bandwidth management software and supports packet queues, bursting, complex traffic flow hierarchies, flow groups, traffic logging, and a simple real-time monitoring front-end.

Here are some key features of "Bandwidth Management Tools":

· XML configuration file format:
- Class based traffic categorization
- POWERFULL for advanced users!!
· Firewalling:
- Support for all Netfilter features on host operating system
· Traffic shaping (flows):
- Shaping of blocks or single ip addresses
- Support for bursting based on user definable average period
- Multi-level shaping, you can define parents & grand parents
· Traffic logging:
- Logging of byte, packet, burst & drop counters
- Traffic flow grouping
· Misc:
- Atomic loading of firewall tables into kernel
- Supports more than 1 CPU

Whats New in 0.2.3 Release:

· Development snapshot 200602012132 has been released as stable.
· The URLs in graphs generated by bwm_graph has been fixed.

Whats New in 200603080716 Release:

· Logging directly to RRD files was added.
· Graphing was fixed, and error handling was improved.
· rrdtool was fixed so that if it is built at installation time, its also installed.
· New flow parameters were added: report-format, report-filename, and flow-mode.

A tool for monitoring and warning you of sudden excess bandwidth usage. We built this after a couple of heart attacks, false alarms and big bills incurred by our customers at short notice.

Its main feature is to warn you immediately when a sudden bandwidth spike is detected, by email and SMS. It will also take a sample of the traffic with tcpdump for analysis if the spike stops before you can get to the machine to examine whats going on.

The program is designed to be simple, independent of the host system, and reliable at warning you as insurance against more complicated bandwidth monitoring systems failing-- in the case where a lapse in concentration can cost you thousands of pounds, you may want to consider having more than one bandwidth monitoring scheme in place :-)

Configuring & usage:

You should invoke the program something like this:

/usr/local/bin/bwalarm 2>&1 | logger -t bwalarm

which will send the programs diagnostic output to your system logs in case you dont see the email or SMS. You do look at your logs regularly dont you? :-)

The script is intended to be a stand-alone program which runs forever on a UNIX system. To change its settings you should edit the top of the file which is reasonable well-documented: essentially you point it at sendmail, tcpdump and set the parameters for issuing an alarm.

So thats the maximum number of packets/bytes per minutes/hour/day, and you can set up as many conditions as you want. Finally which email addresses or phone numbers to notify, and your account details at Clickatell, and youre away.

For SMS notification you should sign up with South-African SMS provider Clickatell who are cheap at around £0.03 per message.

While the program is running it logs alerts to stderr but can show you every reading it takes if you invoke it with the --verbose flag. If you use the --test flag, SMS and email sending will be disabled. You can also tell the program to dump its current list of byte,packet counter pairs to stderr by sending it SIGALRM.

Bandwidth Widget is a small tool that monitors bandwidth usage for Canadian customers of Shaw and Access Communications internet service providers.

bandwidth project is an artificial benchmark for measuring memory bandwidth, useful for identifying a computers weak areas.

It tests several types of memory:

· Main memory read accesses
· Main memory write accesses
· Level 2 cache read accesses
· Level 2 cache write accesses
· Framebuffer read accesses
· Framebuffer write accesses
· String library routines

Whats New in This Release:

· 64-bit support has been added.

Bandwidth Monitor is the new solution to traffic meter applications in your Windows environment. Bandwidth Monitor has been engineered for absolute customization and incorporates all the finest features from its predecessor as well as introducing a whole new world of customization, reliability and features which you requested.

An ideal tool for the bandwidth conscious, Bandwidth Monitor lets you keep a close eye on the amount of bandwidth accumulated over the current hour, day, week, month, or even year! Advanced logging tools make it easy to view your bandwidth usage and make alterations to bandwidth logs.

Sculpt graphs to watch real-time data arriving and leaving your adapter. Export graphs to real-time web feeds, customize colours, plot values, plot scales, transparency, anti-aliasing, and much much more!

Show as little or as much information as you want to. Bandwidth Monitor allows the user to entirely customize the data which is made available to them on the interface. Choose from images, graphs, text information, shapes, and a customizable display canvas. Alter opacity, drop shadows, minimize to system tray, click-through desktop mode, and so much more. Count you kilobytes per second to your terabytes this month, all in a unique and customizable GUI.

Here are some key features of "Bandwidth Monitor Lite":

· Theme Designer
· Customizable Elements
· Real-Time Data Library
· Display/Eye-Candy Options
· Bandwidth Logging
· Graphs
· Images
· Text
· Shapes

SoftPerfect Bandwidth Manager is a full-featured traffic management tool for Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista that offers cost-effective bandwidth control and quality of service based on built-in prioritized rules. These rules can specify a bandwidth limit for each Internet user. This kind of software often called bandwidth shaper, bandwidth limiter or traffic shaper. With SoftPerfect Bandwidth Manager, you can apply speed-throttling rules to specified IP addresses, ports and even network interfaces with no changes to existing network infrastructure. The rich feature set of SoftPerfect Bandwidth Manager is easily managed via the intuitive Windows GUI.

The key features of SoftPerfect Bandwidth Manager:

* Centralized configuration from a single network location.
* Flexible, prioritized, bidirectional rules to specify maximum data rates.
* Rules for IP and MAC addresses, protocols, ports (for TCP/IP) and network interfaces.
* Transparency for end users.
* No software installation is required on client workstations in most cases.
* Detailed and comprehensive statistics are available for each rule.
* P2P network detection

Looking to monitor your bandwidth usage? Bandwidth Vista is modern, informative and intuitive to use. Whether you are looking for network problems or simply want to check the speed of your internet connection Bandwidth Vista is for you. Bandwidth Vista monitors all your connected interfaces at once and holds a history of transfers which can be viewed down to the minute. This dynamic application also indicates the countries of remote computers connected to your machine and maps them for you - quite an eye opener! Also included is a Bandwidth Stop Watch, Email Alerts, an icon for each connected program on your system - with Spyware Squatter!.

Works with Windows XP Home and XP Pro. Requires the .NET Framework 2 installed (available at download page)

Bandwidth monitor is a software utility used for observing and monitoring the transmission and reception of data flow from your network.

It displays total and average bandwidth readings as well as how much bandwidth wasted from overhead. The tool comes equipped with a graphical display to illustrate network fluctuation.

Bandwidth Monitor can be used to determine if downloads or uploads are sporadic (lots of packet delays and drops) or if your network is optimal by showing a steady line of activity.

Bandwidth Monitor is also unique in that it allows you to create custom profiles. The profiles tell Bandwidth Monitor which packets are to be recorded. This allows services such as HTTP, FTP, and SMTP to be separated and collected for specific readings.

Here are some key features of "NM Bandwidth Monitor":

· 2D graph to display network performance
· Profiles to allow customized monitoring
· Multi-network monitoring

Bandwidth Vista description
Looking to monitor your bandwidth usage? Bandwidth Vista is modern, informative and intuitive to use Bandwidth Vista is modern, informative and intuitive to use. Whether you are looking for network problems or simply want to check the speed of your internet connection Bandwidth Vista is for you.

Bandwidth Vista is a software that allows you monitor your usage.

Bandwidth Vista monitors all your connected interfaces at once and holds a history of transfers which can be viewed down to the minute. This dynamic application also indicates the countries of remote computers connected to your machine and maps them for you - quite an eye opener! Also included is a Bandwidth Stop Watch, Email Alerts, an icon for each connected program on your system - with Spyware Squatter!.

Requirements:

· Requires the .NET Framework 2 installed

okons bandwidth manager (aka. obwman) is a simple tool for efficient traffic shaping. okons bandwidth manager aims to give a fair share of bandwidth to each host while imposing particular rules.

Configuration of obwman is straightforward and it is almost maintenance free., as it detects automatically hosts on the network. Obwman prioritises traffic of HTTP, TCP ACK and TCP initiate session.

Here are some key features of "okon s bandwidth manager":

· fair allocation of bandwidth
· enforce minimum and maximum speed
· support for aggregated links (uplink agnostic)
· automatic detection of hosts on the network
· support for Squid proxy
· free (available under GNU General Public License ).

While bandwidth management has been an issue for large corporations and ISPs over years, now it is becoming a problem for home and small business networks as well. Inappropriate use of your network has a negative effect on your business-critical performance. Overuse of network bandwidth on one or two machines causes an adverse impact on other machines. JDSoft Bandwidth Manager will provide a cost effective solution for all these problems.

By monitoring your network traffic and limiting the bandwidth, the software increases the network efficiency immediately with a reduction in your overall bandwidth requirement while allowing business-critical network applications to run smoothly.

JDSoft Bandwidth Manager is a easy-to-use traffic management tool for Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2000 Server and Windows 2003 Server that offers bandwidth control and QoS (quality of service) on built-in prioritized rules. You can apply these rules to specified IP addresses, ports, protocols, and network interfaces without changing existing network infrastructure.

Here are some key features of "JDSoft Bandwidth Manager":

· Centralized configuration and management
· Prioritized, bidirectional rules to specify maximum data rates
· Rules for IP and MAC addresses, protocols, ports (for TCP & UDP) and network interfaces
· Transparency for end users, software installation is only required on the server machine
· Statistics window to monitor the network traffic in real time
· GUI program can be used remotely to change bandwidth setting
· Compatible with many network application and tools like ICS, Wingate, Windows Network Bridge, ISA Server, Proxy Server


Limitations:

· 30 day trial