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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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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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>>> |
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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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I concur with the above poster and use a FreeBSD machine as my gateway. |
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There is a tool called 'trafshow' I use for quick real time traffic |
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analysis which might be useful for you. I found it in portage: |
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net-analyzer/trafshow |
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Cheers, |
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Drew |
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