Josh Paetzel wrote:
On Wednesday 06 December 2006 10:11, Julian Elischer wrote:
Josh Paetzel wrote:
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 23:52, Brett Glass wrote:
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
Just curious.....but where is he going to run ipfw? I seriously
doubt his router can run it, and what good is it going to do him
to run it on a machine on the network if the network is switched?
It's not going to be able to see any of the traffic other than
what that specific machine is sending/receiving.
run ipfw in layer 2 after turning on promiscuous mode and attaching
it to a hub.
I do it all the time.
He specifically said in his original post that putting a machine
between the router and his lan wasn't an option. His question
was, "Is there a program where I can see whats going on from the
computer on that network?" The answer to that question is, if he's on
a switched network, no. Not without a topology change. If he can't
put a box between the switch and router how likely is it that he's
going to be able to put a hub between the switch and router and then
attach a box to that?
I'd say that adding a hub is quite possible..
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