Re: bandwidth capture question

2018-05-04 Thread contact
I know several other places have used Nagios, and it should be in most linux distribution repositories.  I've not set up or used it myself, but should be some tutorials around the web. Michael On Friday, May 4, 2018 at 1:51 PM, jsf wrote:   Hi Michael,   Can you recommend

Re: bandwidth capture question

2018-05-04 Thread Dan Garthwaite
It _would_ be interesting to capture all the SYN packets and it would be many orders of magnitude less to capture. On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 1:51 PM, jsf wrote: > Hi Michael, > > Can you recommend a good SNMP capturing tool and a link to a setup how to? > .. I'm really most

Re: bandwidth capture question

2018-05-04 Thread jsf
Hi Michael, Can you recommend a good SNMP capturing tool and a link to a setup how to? .. I'm really most interested in just seeing how we're doing with our 150/25 circuit and whether or not we should increase/move to fiber/move to symmetrical... Thanks! Joshua On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 1:37 PM,

Re: bandwidth capture question

2018-05-04 Thread contact
Joshua, A network tap might work if you are only looking for mirrored traffic from one port.  One thing to keep in mind is that this is full duplex (TX & RX) so you will most likely need 2 capture interfaces + 3rd for remote access if you need that.  It might be possible to mirror a port off

Re: bandwidth capture question

2018-05-04 Thread jsf
Thanks Ken, I do have Dell switches on the other side of the firewall. I guess I could mirror the port on the switch that is connected to the firewall (which is connected to the modem?) J. On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 1:24 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: > Hey, Joshua. Honestly, you're

Re: bandwidth capture question

2018-05-04 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
Hey, Joshua. Honestly, you're "doing it wrong," for a few reasons. * Capturing *everything* would be huge -- almost certainly fill up your hard disk in relatively short order. * Wireshark isn't the thing to capture it with. If you want that, dump it using "tcpdump" (or its Windows

bandwidth capture question

2018-05-04 Thread jsf
Hi friends, I am IT dir. at a small independent school in CT nowadays. I have a comcast modem. my firewall plugs into a wired port in the comcast modem. I have an old PC running windows 8.1. I have installed wireshark on the old PC. I have plugged the old PC's network interface into another