Cory & Ben Thank you for responding. I work at a hotel about 2 months back we got high speed internet for our rooms. It's a homepna system. We have DSL to the hotel and it's split from there. The company who installed and support it is http://www.trinicor.com . Half the hotel has high speed. They Managers need a usage log to see if a lot of people are using it and if all the rooms are being used then they would install the rest of the hotel.
I talked with trinicor and they can do the logging with the firewall. I thought since my computer was on all the time I could log it. I just need to know how many people are getting on the internet. Since all of our rooms are not high speed internet the front desk has to ask them if they need it. That doesn't mean they use it. In order to track if people were using it they would have to start asking when they check out "where you able to use the high speed internet". That would be a pain for the front desk. Especially if there is a line of people waiting to check out. They want to find out if it is a success and if we need to add more rooms. Trinicor has a good solution for hotels and building which were built before networking. I thought it would be good for strip malls, commercial building and apartement complexes. They can do cat5 or phone line. So a building could have high speed for each tenant. It's been very good so far. It's DSL speed for us but they offer different solutions. It's a great technology. http://www.homepna.org/ I didn't know I need more info but I was just thinking about logging how many people were on. I think they need to know if it's been a success and if they need to add more rooms. They should have it set up to log next week. Thanks Tim On Friday 28 February 2003 12:37 am, you wrote: > On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 12:02:04AM -0600, Timothy Bolz wrote: > > Is there a program or network monitor which can tell when someone connect > > to the network and how long. > > Tim, I think you need to define what you want a little more. > > > We have dhcp and people connect and disconect all the time. > > Your dhcp leases file will show which mac addresses were leased to which ip > addresses. However this information expires after ____ (insert your > default lease time here). This file is stored on your dhcp server. > > > There are only a few computers which are on all the time. I'm > > don't have access to the gateway-router-firewall and do I need access. I > > need to know how if people are using it or not. > > I think you are saying, "I don't have access to the firewall, but I need to > know how people are using the interenet." If that is so, which is still > quite a general statement there are a few ways you can monitor, however it > requires adding programs to your firewall: > 1) You want to know what services and ip addresses people are connecting to > via the interenet. You can use the logging facility within the firewall to > log this information (iptables/ipchains/other). > 2) You want to monitor what websites people are connecting to. Use a > webproxy like squid which and enable logging. > 3) You want to monitor bandwidth. iptraf for realtime stats. There are > some tools that will actually take logs, but I have not used them yet. I > have some emails stored from another list where there was a discussion on > it. If this is really what you want I can dig it up. > > > Mostly it's laptops being > > connected. I've looked up monitors in freshmeat and couldn't fine > > anything close to what I'm looking for. I could use the IP addresses as > > where and I wouldn't need how long they were on but it might be usefull. > > I don't see how the ip address tells you _anything_. Your ip addresses are > assigned by the dhcp server. Someone plugs in, gets an IP and then > unplugs. What does the ip tell you? > > Maybe it would help if you talked more about what you are trying to > acheive. > > Cory > _______________________________________________ > Eug-LUG mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
