Re: [gentoo-user] [Probably off-topic] How do I find out what is consuming the bandwidth?

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Saturday 01 March 2008, Mike Mazur wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 2:26 AM, Steve <Gentoo_sjh@shic.co.uk> wrote:
> > Situation: There's a LAN with a Netgear ADSL router... heterogenous
> > OS, including Gentoo, are installed on various PCs on the LAN.
> >
> >  I'd like to know what communicating IPs are consuming most
> > bandwidth, and to quantify how much bandwidth they are using...
> > Ideally, I'd like to see a real-time list of the main bandwidth
> > consuming communicators...
>
> So you want to monitor the traffic going through your router?
>
> I imagine that would be difficult to do from one of the endpoints in
> your LAN (your Gentoo box). The switch should only route to your
> machine traffic destined for it, so how to measure the bandwidth the
> other machines are consuming between themselves and the outside
> world?
>
> If there is a way to do this I'd be very interested :)

Sometimes the router has an accounting feature. Otherwise you need to 
make a Linux box the gateway for the entire LAN and hang the ADSL 
router off one of it's interfaces. Then do accounting via any one of 
numerous tools


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