AFAIK systat displays info, it doesn't allow to limit bandwidth for example
On Thursday, 31 December 2015, Brian Conway <bcon...@rcesoftware.com> wrote: > systat will show you most of what pftop does, no package necessary. > > > http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man1/systat.1?query=systat&sec=1 > > Brian Conway > > On Dec 31, 2015 2:30 PM, "Mark Carroll" <m...@ixod.org <javascript:;>> > wrote: > > > I was wondering recently what the biggest bandwidth hogs were on my home > > network at a certain moment. On Linux I use iftop on the router for > > this, but I wonder in OpenBSD if, rather than install the iftop package, > > there's something different -- more OpenBSD-ish -- I should be doing > > with clients to pflow or whatever to achieve this same near-instanteous > > view of machines' Internet usage across the router (which NATs them from > > their LAN). > > > > Lately I've been reading about CARP and discovering that the packet > > filter code has all kinds of cool stuff built in for transparent > > load-balancing and failover. And, I like the keep-state stuff that lets > > me do things like rate-limit ssh connections. So, I'm thinking that PF > > may offer me all manner of wonders. So, I got to thinking today: > > > > I wondered about my kids' use of YouTube and suchlike, and I wondered if > > there's a good way of using PF on the router to give them a weekly > > download limit, perhaps cumulative over their devices, after which it > > gets limited to a slow crawl or even cut off. Is this (or some variant > > thereof) something that PF makes easy (any pointers?), or is tricky but > > clearly described in the latest Book of PF, or just not worth the effort > > of attempting -- any thoughts? I may have just picked the wrong web > > search terms, or maybe this just isn't yet at all easy. > > > > (... and Happy New Year!) > > > > -- Mark
