On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 7:10 PM, Jim Cheetham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Don Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Really... if you were using 20gb/month I might ask questions, but isn't >>> this a bit silly? >> >> There's nothing silly in querying "higher than normal" usage; as it >> may indicate that you have a compromised PC forming part of a botnet >> or something. >> >> However, once you have managed to confirm that the high reading is >> "correct" (i.e. worked out how much Google Mail uses by asking other >> people), the baseline should just get reset, and no further questions >> are necessary :-) >> >> I once saw a business switch from Telecom to Telstra, and the Telstra >> plan had a "10GB/month" setting. Luckily for them, their network tech >> noticed (after the switchover) that they were running at 1GB/day on >> email. This was queried; the fix was to get them to stop accepting all >> email for their domain, and instead accept only named users (e.g. >> staff + "sales@", "accounts@" etc). This dropped them down to a few >> hundred meg a month. >> >> Asking the question about usage is an essential part of finding problems :-) >> > > Exactly, I am way over the firm baseline. I do more online stuff, > searches google and non google), download cases etc in my legal > practice than others in the firm, but still seem to be way out of > kilter with others. Big traffic to google was about half of it. I am > on a fact finding mission more than anything. > > An the data costs nothing to produce and minimal to print as a graph!
ntop [1] is your friend. It's available as an addon package for both IPCop and pfSense. [1] http://www.ntop.org/overview.html -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
