RE: SOHO-class user bandwidth monitoring
"Frank Bulk - iName.com" <[email protected]> Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:20:10 -0500
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Good idea, but this is SOHO. The customer doesn't have any managed switches. Frank -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Al Hopper Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 1:13 PM To: [email protected] Subject: 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 > -- > Eat sushi frequently. - Avi > [email protected] is the human contact address. > [email protected] is the list posting address. > See below URL for subscribe/unsubscribe and list options: > http://inet-access.net/mailman/listinfo/list > 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. Regards, -- Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc,Plano,TX al-Gniphm1Q+ng6rkq5uMl77VaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org Voice: 972.379.2133 Timezone: US CDT OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) Member - Apr 2005 to Mar 2007 http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/ogb/ogb_2005-2007/ -- Eat sushi frequently. - Avi [email protected] is the human contact address. [email protected] is the list posting address. See below URL for subscribe/unsubscribe and list options: http://inet-access.net/mailman/listinfo/list -- Eat sushi frequently. - Avi [email protected] is the human contact address. [email protected] is the list posting address. See below URL for subscribe/unsubscribe and list options: http://inet-access.net/mailman/listinfo/list