RE: SOHO-class user bandwidth monitoring

Larry:

That's a good idea.  Doesn't give you L7 info, but it's no-cost and tells
you which machine is generating the traffic.

They have an issue where Internet traffic is occasionally slow and would
like to know what/who is causing that, plus they've been hit with a worm.

I agree with your points on control. =)

Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Sheldon [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 1:39 PM
To: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: 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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