Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 10:01:31 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: spidey@act.co.za Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Traffic Monitor Message-ID: <40FBE24B.1080406@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <000a01c46d9f$c81d5650$0b01000a@SPIDEY> References: <000a01c46d9f$c81d5650$0b01000a@SPIDEY>
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Spidey Knepscheld wrote: >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. > >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 Cisco Catalyst and then to the network.On the catalyst I >mirrored the data coming from the network to the Firewall to one port >and I have a FreeBSD box on that port just to monitor the traffic. > >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.I know there are a >million apps available but I need to see from IP ???? to IP ???? ???? >kb/s and then see how much of the 256k is still available. 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. > > Check out ports/net/trafshow or ports/net-mgmt/iftop I think one of those might be what you want.. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. ------------------------------------------------------------------
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