Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 08:43:06 -0500 (EST) From: Willow <willow@tds.edu> To: Troy Settle <rewt@i-Plus.net> Cc: Paul Stewart <pstewart@kawartha.com>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tracking Machine Bandwidth Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811200842020.1973-100000@zeus.tds.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981120074124.15672C-100000@Radford.i-Plus.net>
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Did you also try to configure and run mrtg? It's in the ports directory and I havent found an SNMP device yet that it cant poll and produce usage stats on. -- Willow <willow@tds.edu> http://www.tds.edu/~willow icq: 19051309 (office) icq: 22034399 (home) -- On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Troy Settle wrote: > > > Installing a second NIC should work for you. Also install SNMP and then > you can poll that interface to see what the usage is. You can probably > also do this by writing a script to use netstat to get the figures. > > > -- > Troy Settle <st@i-Plus.net> > Network Administrator, iPlus Internet Services > http://www.i-Plus.net > > > > On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Paul Stewart wrote: > > > HI there.. we have a customer who is co-locating with us. So, to track > > the bandwidth we bought an HP 24M Managed Hub which HP told us would allow > > us basic tracking of how much GB goes to their machine.... wrong! We > > talked and talked to their tech people and they said nope, won't do it.. > > only their switches will.... > > > > So, we decided fine they can go onto a Cisco Catalyst switch which should > > allow us to track them... small problem... management won't let us spend > > more money on stuff right now til next year.... blah blah blah.. > > > > I would like to just pop an additional network card into a machine here > > and then track their usage via FreeBSD. > > > > Is there any tricks to this? > > Do they have to be subnetted off our main LAN in order for the routing to > > work or can we just route one IP to them using simple route statements? > > By default, our Cisco routers dump all LAN traffic to our .2 box which > > then automatically sends to whomever is broadcasting for that IP... can a > > FreeBSD box broadcast for itself and a routed IP without a lot of > > configuration therefore making the routing easy? > > > > Have I totally confused this matter? ;) > > > > Thanks, > > > > Paul > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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