BandwidthD AlternativesNetwork Monitors and other similar apps like BandwidthD

BandwidthD is described as 'Tracks usage of TCP/IP network subnets and builds html files with graphs to display utilization. Charts are built by individual IPs, and by default display utilization over 2 day, 8 day, 40 day, and 400 day periods' and is a Network Monitor in the network & admin category. There are six alternatives to BandwidthD for a variety of platforms, including Linux, BSD, Mac, Windows and VirtualBox apps. The best BandwidthD alternative is ntop, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like BandwidthD are CacheGuard Gateway, nload, vnStat and darkstat.

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  1. ntop icon
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    NTop is a hybrid layer 2 / layer 3 network monitor, that is by default it uses the layer 2 Media Access Control (MAC) addresses AND the layer 3 tcp/ip addresses. ntop is capable of associating the two, so that ip and non-ip traffic (e.g.

    27 ntop alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • ntop is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to BandwidthD.

    • ntop is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to BandwidthD.

    • ntop is Free and Open SourceBandwidthD is also Free and Open Source
  2. CacheGuard Gateway is a free and open-source Unified Threat Management (UTM) solution, a Web Application Firewall (WAF), and a Quality of Service (QoS) platform designed to optimize WAN traffic. To obtain a CacheGuard Gateway appliance, download CacheGuard-OS and install it on...

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    • VirtualBox
    • Self-Hosted
    • VMware vSphere Hypervisor
    • Microsoft Hyper-V Server
    • Proxmox Virtual Environment
     
    • CacheGuard Gateway is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to BandwidthD.

    • CacheGuard Gateway is Free and Open SourceBandwidthD is also Free and Open Source
    • CacheGuard Gateway is Privacy focused and LightweightBandwidthD is not according to our users
  3.  10 likes

    nload is a console application which monitors network traffic and bandwidth usage in real time. It visualizes the in- and outgoing traffic using two graphs and provides additional info like total amount of transfered data and min/max network usage.

    12 nload alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Solaris
     
  4.  9 likes

    vnStat is a console-based network traffic monitor for Linux and BSD that keeps a log of network traffic for the selected interface(s). It uses the network interface statistics provided by the kernel as information source.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  5. darkstat icon
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    darkstat is a packet sniffer which runs as a background process, captures network traffic, calculates statistics and serves them to a web browser.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  6. OphanimFlow is a NetFlow aggregation and graphing toolkit that collects, classifies, and visualizes traffic data for each host in specified networks, providing detailed bandwidth usage and traffic accounting.

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    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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