Re: SOHO-class user bandwidth monitoring

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.

Simplest would be to enable SNMP on each machine, use one of them to 
read up the stats.

If control is an issue, see you People Management 101 Cliff Notes.


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