Steve Davidson wrote:
Hello BSDers,
I am working for a new company that has a server running SCO (Unix flavor I
haven't encountered b4) and I need to measure the traffic flow in and
out of
this box. Is there a way to do this without a) messing with the SCO box or
configuration or b) installing a bridge between the server and the network.
I am running FreeBSD 6.1 on my desktop. Any advice would be much
appreciated. Thanks.
If the switch that machine is plugged into is SNMP capable, then you could
point a graphing program at that to pull down the per-interface traffic
counters. Same thing goes for the box itself, assuming it has SNMP enabled.
If you want to get really tricky, then the ethernet tap discussed here:
http://www.snort.org/docs/tap/
could be inserted between the host and the rest of the network.
Cheers,
Matthew
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