RE: [gentoo-user] [Probably off-topic] How do I find out what is consuming the bandwidth?

2008-03-04 Thread Daevid Vincent
Actually they don't all cost a fortune. You can pick up a cheap managed switch these days. We have like 20 of these Nortel Baystack 450s at my company that we used to use for development for our NAC product. They sell on eBay for about $50, we've gotten some as cheap as $7 + shipping. Hell, I've

Re: [gentoo-user] [Probably off-topic] How do I find out what is consuming the bandwidth?

2008-03-02 Thread Stroller
On 1 Mar 2008, at 20:56, Alan McKinnon wrote: ... 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

Re: [gentoo-user] [Probably off-topic] How do I find out what is consuming the bandwidth?

2008-03-02 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 22:56:20 +0200 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] [Probably off-topic] How do I find out what is consuming the bandwidth?

2008-03-01 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Alan McKinnon wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] [Probably off-topic] How do I find out what is consuming the bandwidth?

2008-03-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
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

[gentoo-user] [Probably off-topic] How do I find out what is consuming the bandwidth?

2008-02-29 Thread Steve
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

Re: [gentoo-user] [Probably off-topic] How do I find out what is consuming the bandwidth?

2008-02-29 Thread Alan
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 05:26:26PM +, Steve 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

Re: [gentoo-user] [Probably off-topic] How do I find out what is consuming the bandwidth?

2008-02-29 Thread Steve
Alan wrote: Give iftop a look. great tool... unfortunately, even in promiscuous mode, it doesn't track TCP data except to/from the host on which it is running. I presume this means that my Netgear DSL router implements a switch as as opposed to a hub... Nice try though... --

Re: [gentoo-user] [Probably off-topic] How do I find out what is consuming the bandwidth?

2008-02-29 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Steve wrote: | I'd like to know what communicating IPs are consuming most bandwidth, Given the fact that other tools don't serve your purpose, I'd say you give ettercap a try. It's a sniffer that can do ARP Poisoning (sniffing in switched lans).

Re: [gentoo-user] [Probably off-topic] How do I find out what is consuming the bandwidth?

2008-02-29 Thread Mick
On Friday 29 February 2008, Steve wrote: Alan wrote: Give iftop a look. great tool... unfortunately, even in promiscuous mode, it doesn't track TCP data except to/from the host on which it is running. I presume this means that my Netgear DSL router implements a switch as as opposed to a

Re: [gentoo-user] [Probably off-topic] How do I find out what is consuming the bandwidth?

2008-02-29 Thread Mike Mazur
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

Re: [gentoo-user] [Probably off-topic] How do I find out what is consuming the bandwidth?

2008-02-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
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