see below. great questions. -- rgds,
Reinier Battenberg Director Mountbatten Ltd. +256 758 801 749 www.mountbatten.net On Friday 15 October 2010 13:57:11 Stephen S. Musoke wrote: > Reinier, > > A few more questions: > > a) What is the advantage of IPCop over EBox (now Zentyal)? the whole network/dhcp/proxy/dns thing that ipcop does is just a small subset of the wealth of services that Zentyal offers. Zentyal is a full blown SMB server with users, email, chat, voip, filesharing, PDC etc. Networking is just a small part of it. > > b) Which is easier to manage for a newbie? IPCop, i would say. Just because it has fewer options, and after installation there is not much more to do. > > c) Which is easier to integrate in a Windows based network (You may not > have a clue here, but I am shooting in the dark) IPCop does not care about any OS in the network. It just routes & monitors IP traffic. Zentyal *is* your M$ based server. It will happily serve a full AD to your workstations. Hence its more complex. (and a lot cheaper than the M$ solutions + more powerful). > > Thanks again > > Stephen > > -----Original Message----- > From: Reinier Battenberg [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 12:19 PM > To: Linux Users Group Uganda > Subject: Re: [LUG] Caching Box on Network > > > see below > > > Reinier, > > > > You have piqued my interest. Currently I have a Win2k3 box which acts as > > my > > > File, AD, Print Server , DHCP and Gateway - IP 192.168.0.1. I am assuming > > that I have 2 options at this point: > > > > a) Setup the caching on the Win2k3 box - what's the best way to deal with > > this one? > > No clue (as expected ;-) > > > b) Setup a caching server - I setup the PIII box, with Ubuntu Maverick + > > IPCop + NTop and make this my gateway. Is there anything else that I need > > to do? > > IPCop is a dedicated distribution. Pop in the CD, boot, wipe the machine > and > > you are set. > > You can choose to use IPCop as a DHCP server, but you can also keep your > current one. Just make sure that the DHCP server communicates the correct > gateway, which will be the IP address of the ipcop box, to the clients. > > Same goes for DNS, you can use your current box as DNS server, or IPCOP. > Just > make sure the DNS server has the correct entries for the local network. > > Installing the add-ons you need requires some fiddling on the commandprompt > but there are some proper docs to talk you through it. > > > Thanks in advance > > > > Stephen > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Reinier Battenberg [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 10:25 AM > > To: [email protected]; Linux Users Group Uganda > > Subject: Re: [LUG] Bandwidth Monitoring on a NIC > > > > > > seriously, if you have a network with a fixed connection and more than 2 > > computers, running a dedicated machine for caching will just make your > > life > > > a > > lot happier & shiny. > > > > We currently have +/- 25 users in our network on a 1MB/s link. This is > > the cache stats of the last 24 hours: > > > > Total Accesses: 218389 > > Average Accesses: 9099.54 per hour > > Total Cache Hits: 151478 > > Average Cache Hits: 6311.58 per hour > > % Cache Hits: 69.36 % > > Total Cache IMS Hits: 17617 > > Average Cache IMS Hits: 734.04 per hour > > Total Cache Misses: 66909 > > Average Cache Misses: 2787.87 per hour > > % Cache Misses: 30.63 % > > > > and in volume: > > > > Total Transfers: 3 Gb > > Average Transfers: 128.4 Mb per hour > > Total Cache Hits: 228.4 Mb > > Average Cache Hits: 9.5 Mb per hour > > % Cache Hits: 7.41 % > > Total Cache IMS Hits: 4.4 Mb > > Average Cache IMS Hits: 187 Kb per hour > > Total Cache Misses: 2.8 Gb > > Average Cache Misses: 118.9 Mb per hour > > % Cache Misses: 92.58 % > > > > (note that the 3GB includes non-http traffic that can not be cached, like > > ubuntu-cd bittorrent downloads.) Still, 10MB per hour you dont pay for > > (free > > > > as in beer) is a good deal. > > > > That is, 70% of all http requests actually hit the cache! (that is more > > than i > > ever saw, it used to be about 30%) So we get 70% more bandwidth than we > > pay > > > for because requests never leave our building! > > > > Buy the PIII while you can still get one + an extra NIC, download IPCop > > and > > > you do get all the stats, for free. (there is an ntop add-in too) > > > > I forgot to mention something i use quite a bit, which is the proxylog. > > When > > > > traffic is real slow, i just have a look at it (its all webbased, any > > manager > > can do this) and in most cases find the person streaming from last.fm > > youtube > > facebook videos etc. > > > > That is if you actually get enough bandwidth from your provider to open > > any > > > of > > those pages of course ;-) > > > > #lazyweb: if you have time on your hands, configuring the perfect IPCop > > box, > > > > filling up the update-accelerator cache & selling + servicing these boxes > > to > > > > mid-size companies is a GREAT businessmodel. People will love you! (and > > pay > > > you too.) > > > > > Funny, we had a situation like that with our last ISP. > > > > > > For months, they told us our link was saturated. We told them we can't > > > access anything. We did virus/malware scans, etc. Then they recommended > > > usage monitoring tools to download. The tools promptly showed that all > > of > > > > us were barely using any traffic, and yet we couldn't access anything. > > > But they still insisted... we eventually gave them the boot. > > > > > > Needless to say, I'd be very interested in this tool for monitoring our > > > usage with our new ISP. > > > > > > > Reinier, > > > > > > > > Thanks, however this seems to be for Windows Updates. What I am > > looking > > > > > for > > > > is a way to monitor the bandwidth passing through a NIC that's > > > > connecting > > > > > > me > > > > to the Internet (my gateway), so that I can identify what kind of > > > > traffic > > > > > > is > > > > going out and coming in. > > > > > > > > My ISP tells me that my link is saturated, but they cannot provide me > > > > with any graphs/data/information, so seems like I have to do the hard > > > > work myself. > > > > > > > > Stephen > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Reinier Battenberg [mailto:[email protected]] > > > > Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 9:10 AM > > > > To: Linux Users Group Uganda > > > > Subject: Re: [LUG] Bandwidth Monitoring on a NIC > > > > > > > > Flash it with IPcop, i would say. > > > > > > > > Then install the http://update-accelerator.advproxy.net/ and see how > > > > all your > > > > winblows updates get cached. > > > > > > > > That will give you less traffic to monitor :-) > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > rgds, > > > > > > > > Reinier Battenberg > > > > Director > > > > Mountbatten Ltd. > > > > +256 758 801 749 > > > > www.mountbatten.net > > > > > > > > On Friday 15 October 2010 08:25:57 Stephen S. Musoke wrote: > > > >> Dear All, > > > >> > > > >> What open source tools can I monitor the bandwidth usage on a NIC, > > the > > > > >> OS > > > >> is windows 2003 server. I am using this box to connect my internal > > LAN > > > > >> to > > > >> my ISP, and since I cannot get data from them, I can try to get some > > > >> data > > > >> myself > > > >> > > > >> I know, I know this is a LUG forum, but I believe that the members > > > >> of this > > > >> forum deal with this kind of problem on a regular basis hence my > > > >> question. > > > >> And no, I cannot change my OS > > > >> > > > >> Thanks in advance > > > >> > > > >> Stephen > > > >> > > > >> _______________________________________________ > > > >> LUG mailing list > > > >> [email protected] > > > >> http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > > >> > > > >> LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > > >> > > > >> All Archives can be found at > > > >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > > >> > > > >> The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them > > > >> (including attachments if any). 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