Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 07:44:20 -0500 (EST) From: Troy Settle <rewt@i-Plus.net> To: Paul Stewart <pstewart@kawartha.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tracking Machine Bandwidth Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981120074124.15672C-100000@Radford.i-Plus.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981118173542.11046A-100000@shell.kawartha.com>
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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
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