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On Saturday 01 March 2008, Drew Tomlinson wrote: |
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> > Sometimes the router has an accounting feature. Otherwise you need |
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> > to make a Linux box the gateway for the entire LAN and hang the |
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> > ADSL router off one of it's interfaces. Then do accounting via any |
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> > one of numerous tools |
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> I concur with the above poster and use a FreeBSD machine as my |
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> gateway. There is a tool called 'trafshow' I use for quick real |
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> time traffic analysis which might be useful for you. I found it in |
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> portage: |
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> net-analyzer/trafshow |
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There's one other way that I just remembered (for future reference). You |
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don't *have* to use a linux machine as a gateway if you have a decent |
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managed switch - set it to route all traffic on all ports out through |
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the port that a monitoring machine is connected to. In other words, |
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that one part acts like a hub. Now that the monitoring machine can see |
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every bit on the entire Ethernet, it can count 'em :-) |
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However, these switches cost a fortune and I very much doubt that the |
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el-cheapo ADSL routers on the market have this feature. Both of mine |
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certainly don't. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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