Simon Buchanan wrote: > Hi There, Im wondering if someone can point me in the right > direction.... We are wanting to account bandwidth usage per IP in our > rack.. Is this possible, if so - and good ideas? >
Hi,
Other than ipac and ipac-ng you could also use netflow.
The only requirement is that you have a manageable switch which supports port/interface mirroring.
steps: - install a server with two NIC's - mirror the uplink port to the second NIC. - configure nprobe to create netflow data from the mirrored data - configure flow-tools to capture the flows and generate reports
The benefits: - no need to install a linux box as a router running ipac - no need to install ipac on all servers. (possibly customer servers) - no need to aggregate ipac data from multiple servers. - extensive reporting capabilities.
Added bonus is that it makes a nice tcpdump/ethereal box.
Regards,
Bastiaan Spandaw
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