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On Saturday 01 March 2008, Mike Mazur wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 2:26 AM, Steve <Gentoo_sjh@×××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> > Situation: There's a LAN with a Netgear ADSL router... heterogenous |
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> > OS, including Gentoo, are installed on various PCs on the LAN. |
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> > I'd like to know what communicating IPs are consuming most |
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> > bandwidth, and to quantify how much bandwidth they are using... |
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> > Ideally, I'd like to see a real-time list of the main bandwidth |
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> > consuming communicators... |
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> So you want to monitor the traffic going through your router? |
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> I imagine that would be difficult to do from one of the endpoints in |
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> your LAN (your Gentoo box). The switch should only route to your |
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> machine traffic destined for it, so how to measure the bandwidth the |
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> other machines are consuming between themselves and the outside |
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> world? |
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> If there is a way to do this I'd be very interested :) |
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Sometimes the router has an accounting feature. Otherwise you need to |
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make a Linux box the gateway for the entire LAN and hang the ADSL |
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router off one of it's interfaces. Then do accounting via any one of |
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numerous tools |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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