Approach for monitoring internet backbone traffic volume

Posted by Greg Harman on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Greg Harman
Published on 2010-06-03T16:05:28Z Indexed on 2010/06/03 16:14 UTC
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I'm interested in getting a picture of relative volume across different internet backbones. In particular, I'd like to see how traffic volume over a given route differs over the course of a day or from one day to the next.

InternetTrafficReport.com is the closest approximation to this that I've found online, and their approach is to test ping times to a number of key routers from several geographically-dispersed servers. This sounds like one straightforward way to measure, but I don't have several geographically-dispersed servers.

Is there a different approach for sampling this type of information from a single server?

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