[Soekris] general questions

[Michael]

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>I thought about doing some traffic statistics on a soekris-based router. 
>Doing just per-interface statistics would be boring. I thought about 
>collecting some detailed statistics. I thought about using ntop to gather 
>statistics that would be then queried by another computer to do the 
>graphing (or whatever else). Now my question is whether the CPU of a 
>net45xx is powerful enough to run ntop gathering statistics on all 
>interfaces.
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Well I haven't run ntop on my net4501, but I honestly am not sure the 4501
has enough balls for the task.

I run openbsd on mine, and I use 'iftop'  to do real-time monitoring of
traffic on just the external interface, and on high net loads, iftop takes
about 15-25% cpu.

on my previous linux router, I had ntop listening on all interfaces, and
when I had large traffic loads flowing on the internal and external
interfaces, ntop would take about 50% of the 500mhz AMD cpu I used