Re: Bandwidth Monitoring program

2006-12-07 Thread Paul Koch
On Wednesday 06 December 2006 02:48, Benjamin Adams wrote: > I'm on a network that has a normal store firewall, setup as a NAT. > I'm trying to find a way to monitor all bandwidth by clients through > that firewall. I don't have the ability to just put an inline box to > examine packets. Is ther

Re: Bandwidth Monitoring program

2006-12-06 Thread Julian Elischer
Benjamin D Adams wrote: On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 16:25 -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: Benjamin D Adams wrote: What my network looks like: NET | NAT/FIREWALL(2.1.24.34) | /-[ HUB ]\< put a cheap hub here

Re: Bandwidth Monitoring program

2006-12-06 Thread Benjamin D Adams
On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 16:25 -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > Benjamin D Adams wrote: > > What my network looks like: > > NET > > | > > NAT/FIREWALL(2.1.24.34) > > | > > ---< put a cheap hub here > > | |

Re: Bandwidth Monitoring program

2006-12-06 Thread Julian Elischer
Benjamin D Adams wrote: What my network looks like: NET | NAT/FIREWALL(2.1.24.34) | ---< put a cheap hub here | | | 2.1.24.35 2.1.24.36 2.1.24.37 if you place a cheap 100M

Re: Bandwidth Monitoring program

2006-12-06 Thread Benjamin D Adams
What my network looks like: NET | NAT/FIREWALL(2.1.24.34) | --- | | | 2.1.24.35 2.1.24.36 2.1.24.37 There is no DHCP, I don't think it is possablie to do this but I want to install a

Re: Bandwidth Monitoring program

2006-12-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Dec 6, 2006, at 10:38 AM, Brett Glass wrote: Is adding a hub or a bridge a topology change? I'd argue that it wasn't. Um. Adding a normal client machine to an existing hub or switch does not constitute a topology change. Adding a new hub or bridge most certainly would constitute a top

Re: Bandwidth Monitoring program

2006-12-06 Thread Art Mason
On Wednesday 06 December 2006 11:53, 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 ha

Re: Bandwidth Monitoring program

2006-12-06 Thread Brett Glass
At 10:53 AM 12/6/2006, Josh Paetzel wrote: >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

Re: Bandwidth Monitoring program

2006-12-06 Thread Julian Elischer
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

Re: Bandwidth Monitoring program

2006-12-06 Thread Josh Paetzel
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 resu

Re: Bandwidth Monitoring program

2006-12-06 Thread Julian Elischer
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 a

Re: Bandwidth Monitoring program

2006-12-06 Thread Brett Glass
At 02:13 AM 12/6/2006, Josh Paetzel wrote: >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

Re: Bandwidth Monitoring program

2006-12-06 Thread Josh Paetzel
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

Re: Bandwidth Monitoring program

2006-12-05 Thread Brett Glass
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 l

Re: Bandwidth Monitoring program

2006-12-05 Thread Joe Holden
Benjamin Adams wrote: > I'm on a network that has a normal store firewall, setup as a NAT. I'm > trying to find a way to monitor all bandwidth by clients through that > firewall. I don't have the ability to just put an inline box to examine > packets. Is there a program where I can see whats goi

Re: Bandwidth Monitoring program

2006-12-05 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 11:45, pete wright wrote: > On 12/5/06, Benjamin Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm on a network that has a normal store firewall, setup as a > > NAT. I'm trying to find a way to monitor all bandwidth by > > clients through that firewall. I don't have the ability

Re: Bandwidth Monitoring program

2006-12-05 Thread pete wright
On 12/5/06, Benjamin Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm on a network that has a normal store firewall, setup as a NAT. I'm trying to find a way to monitor all bandwidth by clients through that firewall. I don't have the ability to just put an inline box to examine packets. Is there a program

Re: Bandwidth monitoring

2003-06-26 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 07:05:57PM -0400, Robert Watson wrote: ... > > that an ISP is likely to charge for and have the tables 'reaped every > > now and then by a daemon to give a time dimension to the data.. > > Well, the case that this code was designed for was passive monitoring of > many IPs

Re: Bandwidth monitoring

2003-06-26 Thread Michael Sierchio
Julian Elischer wrote: I'm not sure I understand why not just tell ipfw to count all packets that an ISP is likely to charge for and have the tables 'reaped every now and then by a daemon to give a time dimension to the data.. That was my thought, though the OP isn't using ipfw, and I'm woefully ig

Re: Bandwidth monitoring

2003-06-26 Thread Robert Watson
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Julian Elischer wrote: > I'm not sure I understand why not just tell ipfw to count all packets > that an ISP is likely to charge for and have the tables 'reaped every > now and then by a daemon to give a time dimension to the data.. Well, the case that this code was designe

Re: Bandwidth monitoring

2003-06-26 Thread Julian Elischer
I'm not sure I understand why not just tell ipfw to count all packets that an ISP is likely to charge for and have the tables 'reaped every now and then by a daemon to give a time dimension to the data.. On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Robert Watson wrote: > On 24 Jun 2003, Adam wrote: > > > My ISP is pl

Re: Bandwidth monitoring

2003-06-26 Thread Robert Watson
On 24 Jun 2003, Adam wrote: > My ISP is placing strict restrictions on how much I can transfer each > month, with high penalties for exceeding their limits. However, they > don't provide any way for their customer's to check to see how much > they've transferred, so we end up transferring far less

Re: Bandwidth monitoring

2003-06-26 Thread Ian Freislich
Richard A Steenbergen wrote: > > I would suggest that you find out exacly how they measure your > > traffic useage. ie do they measure only packets that were switched > > by their router or just any and every single byte that their > > router's ethernet interface sees. The first is IMHO much more

Re: Bandwidth monitoring

2003-06-26 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 09:53:31AM +0200, Ian Freislich wrote: > > Won't that count all the ethernet frames and local ethernet broadcasts > which probably won't be billed for? We had this problem using > router (ethernet) interface counters to measure traffic in our > hosting center. The trouble

RE: Bandwidth monitoring

2003-06-26 Thread Jon Newson
atabase of the stats, via a cron job. Cheers, Jon Newson - Systems Administrator SDR Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Ian Freislich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 5:54 PM To: Lars Eggert Cc: Adam; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Bandwidth

Re: Bandwidth monitoring

2003-06-26 Thread Ian Freislich
Lars Eggert wrote: > Adam wrote: > > My ISP is placing strict restrictions on how much I can transfer each > > month, with high penalties for exceeding their limits. However, they > > don't provide any way for their customer's to check to see how much > > they've transferred, so we end up transferr

Re: Bandwidth monitoring

2003-06-24 Thread Clement Laforet
What about IPA ? http://ipa-system.sourceforge.net/ ${PORTSDIR}/sysutils/ipa regards, clem On 24 Jun 2003 11:13:01 -0400 Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My ISP is placing strict restrictions on how much I can transfer each > month, with high penalties for exceeding their limits. However, the

Re: Bandwidth monitoring

2003-06-24 Thread Lars Eggert
Adam wrote: My ISP is placing strict restrictions on how much I can transfer each month, with high penalties for exceeding their limits. However, they don't provide any way for their customer's to check to see how much they've transferred, so we end up transferring far less than what we are allowed