Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 17:40:08 -0500 (EST) From: Paul Stewart <pstewart@kawartha.com> To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Tracking Machine Bandwidth Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981118173542.11046A-100000@shell.kawartha.com>
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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
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