Re: [gentoo-user] [Probably off-topic] How do I find out what is consuming the bandwidth?

[Dan Farrell]

On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 22:56:20 +0200
Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:

> There's one other way that I just remembered (for future reference).
> You don't *have* to use a linux machine as a gateway if you have a
> decent managed switch - set it to route all traffic on all ports out
> through the port that a monitoring machine is connected to. In other
> words, that one part acts like a hub. Now that the monitoring machine
> can see every bit on the entire Ethernet, it can count 'em :-)
>
> However, these switches cost a fortune and I very much doubt that the
> el-cheapo ADSL routers on the market have this feature. Both of mine
> certainly don't.

 You could also do this with a non-switching hub, if you can find one.
They would be a whole lot cheaper, I'd imagine, than a managed switch,
even used on ebay.  
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