From: Dan Farrell <dan@spore.ath.cx>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [Probably off-topic] How do I find out what is consuming the bandwidth?
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 12:06:58 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080302120658.7aa795da@pascal.spore.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200803012256.20147.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 22:56:20 +0200
Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> There's one other way that I just remembered (for future reference).
> You don't *have* to use a linux machine as a gateway if you have a
> decent managed switch - set it to route all traffic on all ports out
> through the port that a monitoring machine is connected to. In other
> words, that one part acts like a hub. Now that the monitoring machine
> can see every bit on the entire Ethernet, it can count 'em :-)
>
> However, these switches cost a fortune and I very much doubt that the
> el-cheapo ADSL routers on the market have this feature. Both of mine
> certainly don't.
You could also do this with a non-switching hub, if you can find one.
They would be a whole lot cheaper, I'd imagine, than a managed switch,
even used on ebay.
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-29 17:26 [gentoo-user] [Probably off-topic] How do I find out what is consuming the bandwidth? Steve
2008-02-29 17:37 ` Alan
2008-02-29 17:58 ` Steve
2008-03-01 0:12 ` Mick
2008-02-29 19:13 ` Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
2008-03-01 1:13 ` Mike Mazur
2008-03-01 1:24 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-03-01 16:24 ` Drew Tomlinson
2008-03-01 20:56 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-03-02 12:53 ` Stroller
2008-03-02 18:06 ` Dan Farrell [this message]
2008-03-04 21:29 ` Daevid Vincent
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