From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 26 15:39:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fedex.is.co.za (fedex.is.co.za [196.4.160.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23BD237B401 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 15:39:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from c7-pta-146.dial-up.net (c7-pta-146.dial-up.net [196.26.135.146]) by fedex.is.co.za (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA88192; Sat, 27 Oct 2001 00:39:27 +0200 (SAST) Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 00:41:40 +0200 (SAST) From: The Psychotic Viper X-X-Sender: To: Edwin Groothuis Cc: , ann kok Subject: Re: check bandwidth traffic Message-ID: <20011027002601.C37468-100000@lucifer.fuzion.ath.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi again, > > > > 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. > It would still be his nearest router. A router is a network device > which routes IP packets, wether or not this is a dedicated Cisco > router, a dedicated Bay router, a dedicated DEC router or a unix > box which also routes. Firstly apologies to Ann for me refering to her as he, only realised afterwards when I saw the message info.My bad. Secondly I agree that a bridge or NAT box would be a router, but she had originally asked for a cisco router (possibly another make installed but basically its a dedicated hardware router). Also it would be possible to install SNMP on a FreeBSD system doing routing Im sure but personally have not tried it, so went along and answered the most common scenario as well as helping her find the (cisco) router she asked for. PsyV To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message