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 1JVsaS-00072U-C3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:07:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CECE0E07E8; Sun, 2 Mar 2008 18:06:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from spore.ath.cx (66-191-143-114.static.roch.mn.charter.com [66.191.143.114]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA7BBE07E8 for ; Sun, 2 Mar 2008 18:06:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pascal.spore.ath.cx (pascal.spore.ath.cx [192.168.1.100]) by spore.ath.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 823CA1E02 for ; Sun, 2 Mar 2008 12:06:58 -0600 (CST) Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 12:06:58 -0600 From: Dan Farrell To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [Probably off-topic] How do I find out what is consuming the bandwidth? Message-ID: <20080302120658.7aa795da@pascal.spore.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <200803012256.20147.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> References: <47C84042.4010301@shic.co.uk> <200803010324.28538.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <47C98353.2070509@mykitchentable.net> <200803012256.20147.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Organization: Spore, Ltd. X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.12.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 9f1742b3-0507-41c3-9cf5-8a8dc11d6490 X-Archives-Hash: 70fc1b736248050c94733cd06a3a5733 On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 22:56:20 +0200 Alan McKinnon 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. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list