Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 09:04:39 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net> To: Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org Cc: Benjamin Adams <freebsdworld@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Bandwidth Monitoring program Message-ID: <200612061604.JAA12191@lariat.net> In-Reply-To: <200612060313.23621.josh@tcbug.org> References: <6199c3dc0612050848g16a0911dga145485ba14bf21f@mail.gmail.com> <200612060552.WAA04850@lariat.net> <200612060313.23621.josh@tcbug.org>
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At 02:13 AM 12/6/2006, Josh Paetzel wrote: >Just curious.....but where is he going to run ipfw? I seriously doubt >his router can run it, and what good is it going to do him to run it >on a machine on the network if the network is switched? It's not >going to be able to see any of the traffic other than what that >specific machine is sending/receiving. Of course, if his machine isn't acting as a router or bridge, and is not attached to a hub or the management port of a switch, there's no way that it could measure the traffic. So, we must assume that one of these things is true. Otherwise, all bets are off from the start. --Brett Glass
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