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Date:      Mon, 18 Sep 2006 19:38:54 +0100
From:      Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
To:        Steve Davidson <stevedav@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Server badwidth consumption
Message-ID:  <450EE7BE.5050700@infracaninophile.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <d0d081570609181118s3f1f248cl94e60e99c722a3c6@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <d0d081570609181118s3f1f248cl94e60e99c722a3c6@mail.gmail.com>

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Steve Davidson wrote:
> Hello BSDers,
> I am working for a new company that has a server running SCO (Unix flav=
or I
> haven't encountered b4) and I need to measure the traffic flow in and
> out of
> this box. Is there a way to do this without a) messing with the SCO box=
 or
> configuration or b) installing a bridge between the server and the netw=
ork.
> I am running FreeBSD 6.1 on my desktop. Any advice would be much
> appreciated. Thanks.

If the switch that machine is plugged into is SNMP capable, then you coul=
d
point a graphing program at that to pull down the per-interface traffic
counters.  Same thing goes for the box itself, assuming it has SNMP enabl=
ed.

If you want to get really tricky, then the ethernet tap discussed here:

   http://www.snort.org/docs/tap/

could be inserted between the host and the rest of the network.

	Cheers,

	Matthew


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