On Saturday 01 March 2008, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > > 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 > > > > I concur with the above poster and use a FreeBSD machine as my > gateway. There is a tool called 'trafshow' I use for quick real > time traffic analysis which might be useful for you. I found it in > portage: > > net-analyzer/trafshow
There's one other way that I just remembered (for future reference). You don't *have* to use a linux machine as a gateway if you have a decent managed switch - set it to route all traffic on all ports out through the port that a monitoring machine is connected to. In other words, that one part acts like a hub. Now that the monitoring machine can see every bit on the entire Ethernet, it can count 'em :-) However, these switches cost a fortune and I very much doubt that the el-cheapo ADSL routers on the market have this feature. Both of mine certainly don't. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
