Secure bandwidth monitor that does NOT rely on SNMP?

[Guest_imported]

I've looked at solutions like MRTG and Cricket, for simple bandwidth monitoring (not throttling) of my apache virtual domains but they both require SNMP to work. As far as i'm aware, SNMP is notoriously insecure and I'd like to just avoid this protocol altogether for now until I learn more about it. What other options do I have? Also looked at traffic loggers like webalizer and i'm looking for something more bandwidth oriented instead of hit counting oriented.

 

[MrTom]

snmp isn't too bad if set up properly.

but an snmp daemon would most likely get it's information from proc.

if you log in to your box and run 'cat /proc/net/dev' you'll see an output of all your network stats for each card. a simple perl script could be made locally to do some math and rrdtool/mrtg could be used to make pretty graphs from these.