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From: Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com>
To: The Psychotic Viper <psyv@sec-it.net>
Cc: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>,
	ann kok <annkok2001@yahoo.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: check bandwidth traffic
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You could also install SNMP on your machine and then just collect traffic
on your NIC card... that's what I do...

-philip

On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, The Psychotic Viper wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
>
> > > I know the the following software can check the
> > > network traffic
> > > http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/
> > >
> > > but how do I know the nearest cisco router?
> >
> > It's your default gateway (if it is a Cisco I can't tell, but it's
> > the nearest router). netstat -r will tell you what it is.
> Not always, he could be behind a NAT or Bridge and that would then be his
> route in some/most cases (all if its a NAT). Best would be to traceroute
> and nmap or passiveos scan each of the first few links till you turn up a
> positive or just ask the network connectivity person. You may have to
> anyways to get the authorization and maybe public strings to get mrtg
> working (because not all strings are remotely obtainable, least in a
> Perfect World).
>
> HTH
> PsyV
>
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