I monitor ports on a managed switch with SNMP using Cacti or similar. Obviously not for everyone but at least I can determine who the problem child is. I have used NTOP in the past but my NTOP skills are lacking.
Curtis LaMasters http://www.curtis-lamasters.com http://www.builtnetworks.com On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Jaime Díaz <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Chuck Mariotti <[email protected]> wrote: >> Are either of these safe to run on embedded (Alix)? I did a custom install >> so that I can install Packages, so that I could run snort, but I can't seem >> to keep snort running, keeps shutting down by itself. So wonder if I'll run >> into any issues with these... >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Jaime Díaz [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 8:50 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Moving Target - How do people track down >> bandwidth usage...? >> >> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Chuck Mariotti <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Yesterday we had a huge hit on our bandwidth for a period of time... How >>> are people tracking down bandwidth usage to specific machines, etc...? >>> >>> By the time I captured some packets and pulled up wireshark, the hit was >>> gone. It showed up later in the day, but again, too fast to track down. >>> >>> Is there an easy way to track down specifically what machines are using up >>> bandwidth? >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Chuck >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >>> >>> Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org >>> >>> >> >> You could use bandwidthd or ntop to track down those users. >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> >> Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> >> Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org >> >> > > Sorry, I didn't knew you were running on an embedded platform. > > I wouldn't run it on such hardware. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
