Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 22:52:34 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net> To: "Benjamin Adams" <freebsdworld@gmail.com>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bandwidth Monitoring program Message-ID: <200612060552.WAA04850@lariat.net> In-Reply-To: <6199c3dc0612050848g16a0911dga145485ba14bf21f@mail.gmail.co m> References: <6199c3dc0612050848g16a0911dga145485ba14bf21f@mail.gmail.com>
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Add a few IPFW "count" rules to count the bytes and packets. Then, periodically harvest and reset the counters via a cron job and write the results to a file. You can then prepare tables and charts which are as simple or as fancy as you please, without resorting to SNMP (which isn't secure). A little bit of code in your favorite scripting language will do it. And of course you can output to a graphing package, though for me a simple histogram using asterisks has sufficient precision in most cases. --Brett Glass At 09:48 AM 12/5/2006, Benjamin Adams wrote: >I'm on a network that has a normal store firewall, setup as a NAT. I'm >trying to find a way to monitor all bandwidth by clients through that >firewall. I don't have the ability to just put an inline box to examine >packets. Is there a program where I can see whats going on from the >computer on that network. > >What I'm looking for is: >client ip : 2.3 GB >List of ports used in bandwidth amounts. > > >Thanks for any help, >Ben Adams >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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