On Tuesday 01 June 2004 8:00 am, [K][R][Y][P][T][O][N] wrote: > every time we open the lab our bandwidth consumption tends > to rise up.
does it stay at that elevated level? if you turn off all the workstations, does it still stay at that level? by how much does it rise? (kbps, percentage). > 1. Is this possible even though all workstations pass > through a secured router? if any workstations are cracked, sure. if any workstations are running unauthorized bandwidth hogs, then sure. check for those first. is there a wireless AP? maybe there's a windows box with trojans or just some filesharing software connected to your network. > 2. Do we need to make the built-in firewall set to HIGH or > Paranoid? i don't know. i use handbuilt firewalls, so i know what things are allowed and what not. you could run something like iptraf or some other per protocol bandwidth monitor, so it'll tell you what protocols and what the per protocol volumes are at those times. or you could just run a ethereal and see what's happening (harder to see the big picture though, i think, with ethereal, but maybe that's just because i don't know how to use it for the big picture, usually i use it for analyzing small network problems, not "in the large" network problems). tiger -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
