On Saturday 01 March 2008, Mike Mazur wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 2:26 AM, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Situation: There's a LAN with a Netgear ADSL router... heterogenous > > OS, including Gentoo, are installed on various PCs on the LAN. > > > > I'd like to know what communicating IPs are consuming most > > bandwidth, and to quantify how much bandwidth they are using... > > Ideally, I'd like to see a real-time list of the main bandwidth > > consuming communicators... > > So you want to monitor the traffic going through your router? > > I imagine that would be difficult to do from one of the endpoints in > your LAN (your Gentoo box). The switch should only route to your > machine traffic destined for it, so how to measure the bandwidth the > other machines are consuming between themselves and the outside > world? > > If there is a way to do this I'd be very interested :)
Sometimes the router has an accounting feature. Otherwise you need to make a Linux box the gateway for the entire LAN and hang the ADSL router off one of it's interfaces. Then do accounting via any one of numerous tools -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
