Monitor bandwidth usage for each computer in LAN

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Fr, den 22.07.2005 schrieb Reuben D. Budiardja um 14:46:

> It seems that the easiest for me right now is to run ntop separately. I am 
> however, in the future planning to have a box acting as a bridge behind the 
> D-Link combo router, than connect the bridge with a switch. Will that work 
> with ipac-ng or ntop if I put it on that bridge ? Still in that case, I am 
> not sure what to do with the wireless connection, since the AP is the D-Link 
> router... hmm.... 

> Reuben D. Budiardja

ipac-ng just uses iptables. So all traffic passing the netfilter in the
kernel can be recognized and logged. It doesn't matter whether you are
running a bridging firewall setup or not. As long as the D-Link AP is
behind the borderline router/firewall you can catch bandwidth data for
WLAN too.

Alexander


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