Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 19:27:23 +0200 From: Etienne Ledoux <etienne@unix.za.org> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Cc: 'Spidey Knepscheld' <spidey@act.co.za> Subject: Re: Traffic Monitor Message-ID: <200404221927.23918.etienne@unix.za.org> In-Reply-To: <4087D9F7.10800@telcom.net> References: <4087D9F7.10800@telcom.net>
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ntop might not be a bad idea either. check out : http://www.ntop.org/ It's helped many of our clients in the past with similar problems and the cute graphs also makes the bosses happy. e. On Thursday 22 April 2004 16:43, Arie Kachler wrote: > Hi Spidey, > > If you want to go low-cost (free), try http://ipband.sourceforge.net. It > won't let you limit connections that are hogging your bandwidth, but at > least you know who the hogs are. > If you want full bells and whistles, > http://www.packeteer.com/prod-sol/products/packetshaper.cfm. This one > will let you do anything you want. Exprensive but worth it. > > Hope the info helps. > > Arie Kachler > > >Hi > > > >I am an ISP running FreeBSD as a firewall and as a Mail Server. My problem > >is that I am not able to monitor the amount of traffic that user are using > >on my network. in south Africa bandwidth is extremely expensive and I need > >to take my bandwidth to the edge. > > > >My network looks like this: My Link comes in on a Cisco 805 from the > > router it goes to the first NIC on the Firewall from the second NIC it > > runs into a 10base HUB where there are only 3 ports used one as I said > > for the Firewall the other for a FreeBSD box (I want to use this box for > > traffic monitoring) and then one port for the rest of the network which > > connects to a 100base switch. The reason I used the 10base HUB is because > > it broadcasts all the data to all the ports. So for all data to and from > > the firewall will be caught by the Monitoring BSD box. I hope this makes > > sense. > > > >What I am looking for is some app that could show me live what ip on my > >network is utilizing what part of the bandwidth. Don't laugh !!I have a > > 256k Diginet connection and I would like to see who is killing my > > network. I do get live graphs from my upstream supplier but it shows the > > line utilization from my router and not who is using what. > > > >So I can't be proactive in solving speed issues I need to wait for it to > >happen and then by a process of elimination disconnect segments of the > >network and see when the graph drops. I tried TCPDUMP but it is difficult > > to understand (perhaps I am just stupid) but it's a time consuming > > process and to late to fix the problem. > > > >I hope this makes sense to someone > > > >thank you > > > >Spidey > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-isp@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-isp > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-isp-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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