Good luck trying to force inbound traffic to a specific link.  I worked
with BGP quite a bit and it's tough to do.  Easy for failover - not easy
to load balance or some type of policy based routing.  Oubound is easy
as I'm sure you're aware.

Regardless, ip accounting on each router will tell you what ip's are
doing what volume of traffic with who.  Not pretty, but it will quickly
get the info you need.  I'm sure you could copy/paste into excel and
make it look pretty if you want.  Else, (2) nics in ntop should work no
problem.

If you're doing NAT/PNAT - which you probably are - how will you
distinguish between local nodes?  You may have to stick ntop on the
private side of your firewall to get the true client side info, but you
won't be able to tell which link they're using then!

Gary


>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/25/2006 3:32 PM >>>
On 10/25/06, Gary Gatten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Need to read this again to be sure, but here are some options:
>
> Multiple NICS - each one monitors a different ISP connection - two
> different SPAN sessions
>
> Host Clusters.  Not much doc here, but easy once you figure it out.
> Not sure if it would work for you though as the source and dest IP
can
> be the same on both links - right?  Or, are your source - your
company's
> IP's - different depending on which link they use?

They all use the same Class C from the larger ISP connection -
however, the routing is split up between the two routers depending on
where they're going. We have a "corporate" side and an "ecom" side.
Once they're routed in the right direction, there's a firewall between
them.

>
> get netflow working? :)

Hell no! Have no idea what the deal is but even after the re-install,
no love. I'm thinking it just has to do with the complexity of this
box, and this box's routing.

>
> If you don't care about what types of traffic and just want to see
> volume stats, use MRTG or similar SNMP tool to trend ifOctets in/out
on
> each ISP int.
> use show int on routers and look at traffic.  There's packets tx/rx,
> bytes tx/rx, 5 minute loads - that can be changed.

I'm using Cacti for that, but what I'm really after is what IPs from
the Internet are coming to what IPs of ours (are they using the big
connection for ecom stuff or, instead, the small side?).

>

>
> If both routers are connected to both switches, one of the ports
should
> be blocked via STP - so make sure you are SPAN'ing the
active/forwarding
> port(s)
>

Well, right now I'm just spanning the one port that the router for the
small connection is plugged into.
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