Re: SOHO-class user bandwidth monitoring

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Seth Mattinen <sethm-z7IltzP/[email protected]> wrote:
> Frank Bulk - iName.com wrote:
>> I had a small-biz customer ask me today for a router or opensource software
>> that can help him track employee bandwidth usage.  Besides setting up
>> Wireshark for the times congestion happens, the only thing I could come up
>> with was a Cisco ASA 5505 and use the free versions of netflow monitoring
>> tools from Solarwinds or Plixer.
>>
>> Any other ideas out there?  It would need to be dead-simple for the customer
>> to configure and set up.
>>
>
> You could use any router that supported netflow. Do they already have a
> router or just trashy ISP supplied stuff? I've been a fan of the 2800
> series routers for entry level applications. They're cheap enough and
> extremely flexible.
>
> ~Seth
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If you've got each user on their own switch port, you can get packet
and byte counts from the switch.  You'll need a managed switch or one
of the less expensive web managed ones.  Periodically snag the counts
via SNMP and display them with MRTG or something similar.

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