From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JVYpR-0004Pf-JI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 01 Mar 2008 21:01:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EC1FEE0663; Sat, 1 Mar 2008 21:01:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.173]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0FD8E0663 for ; Sat, 1 Mar 2008 21:01:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id j3so935811ugf.49 for ; Sat, 01 Mar 2008 13:01:07 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=WwSMX2ZpBO/ghN0JEDsJDHt+jbTkQKBY67TztTAPVwU=; b=VeNa0o6vuiB+cFh7kZVSl8CwN5YDA7y11Vp93i6/yw89tjHjApjlrjeXywwPZlnTMDdLDEHqvvpQAHjfTfEgkiOGsE5uNbMWJ9GbCg9Y1kMFj8p7PwUo/EVHwmELcQNJGDfXiYdIXabnh8ZdaVTsCbZfV5VVDI6LJf1clxc9cdQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=rF5JwNPSOEmBzRJKA+wvo404gQBTo0JQ1oHzr+aLokcT9odHPZUAKhKWwLOws5kd6mCnei1r6hJA+Wu4gSUqZRhdJxJsJe5BXxUbeqcxxC7mml5oo1ux9DWp3YVC5j0RtNdX/xFAgYX0C36oCrzKJOliIkhrc0PAXqnXbM8VBcg= Received: by 10.67.115.17 with SMTP id s17mr3155906ugm.56.1204405266788; Sat, 01 Mar 2008 13:01:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?10.0.0.4? ( [41.243.253.153]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id n34sm1241524ugc.64.2008.03.01.13.01.03 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 01 Mar 2008 13:01:05 -0800 (PST) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [Probably off-topic] How do I find out what is consuming the bandwidth? Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 22:56:20 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <47C84042.4010301@shic.co.uk> <200803010324.28538.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <47C98353.2070509@mykitchentable.net> In-Reply-To: <47C98353.2070509@mykitchentable.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200803012256.20147.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 3746cc8f-3bfc-4cf9-a504-a6f22e8b47a1 X-Archives-Hash: 008667ddf49fdfb0b1994de39d0f3f66 On Saturday 01 March 2008, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > > 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 > > =A0 > > I concur with the above poster and use a FreeBSD machine as my > gateway. =A0 There is a tool called 'trafshow' I use for quick real > time traffic analysis which might be useful for you. =A0I found it in > portage: > > net-analyzer/trafshow There's one other way that I just remembered (for future reference). You=20 don't *have* to use a linux machine as a gateway if you have a decent=20 managed switch - set it to route all traffic on all ports out through=20 the port that a monitoring machine is connected to. In other words,=20 that one part acts like a hub. Now that the monitoring machine can see=20 every bit on the entire Ethernet, it can count 'em :-) However, these switches cost a fortune and I very much doubt that the=20 el-cheapo ADSL routers on the market have this feature. Both of mine=20 certainly don't. =2D-=20 Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list