Monitor bandwidth usage for each computer in LAN

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Fri Jul 22 21:10:55 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 07:46, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:

> Thanks for all the replies. 
> So I think to summarize (correct me if I am wrong), I can use:
> - MRTG, with SNMP enables on all the boxes (which so far all running FC 3 / 
> 4), or let MRTG query a managed switch (which I don't have)
> - ipac-ng, as long as there's a one box acting as a router
> - cacti. I will check that out this week end
> - ntop, running separately on each box, or data can be collected from one box 
> if there were a box acting as a router.
> 
> 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.... 

Or, you could have a box acting as a router sitting in front of the
d-link and don't use the d-link's WAN port at all.  Routing is easier
to handle on Linux than bridging and an ntop running there would see
all the traffic to/from the internet or itself.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell at futuresource.com






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