If all you're looking to do is see bandwidth usage by protocol, and other monitoring tasks, such as who your top 3 talkers are, etc., I can heartily recommend putting up a *nix box on a mirror/span port on the switch to which your firewall is connected, and running ntop.
ntop is really dang cool - http://www.ntop.org/overfview.html On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 12:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At one of my clients we have the need to try and determine how the internet > is being utilized. The 10mb is constantly swamped and I have a hard time > believing it's for work-related reasons. > > I'm looking at putting in some kind of software/device that analyzes the > internet traffic and can tell me how much is being used for basic web > surfing, streaming video, webcam usage, p2p programs, internet radio, or > whatever else might be happening. > > I know packeteer has a product that does this, but we are NOT looking to > "shape" the bandwidth at this time, merely view it so we can make a > determination of what to do from there. They used to have a "viewer" > product in the past long ago called PacketPup but I'm not sure if they do > anymore... > > Any recommendations on how I can determine what the internet is being used > for as it relates to Applications? > > Thanks > JR > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > myhosting.com - Premium Microsoft(R) Windows(R) and Linux web and application > hosting - http://link.myhosting.com/myhosting > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
