Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2016 15:04:15 +0000 From: Paul Stuffins <freebsd@ravexdata.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Software for bandwidth management Message-ID: <568A89EF.6020601@ravexdata.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1601041551450.65744@mail.fig.ol.no> References: <CAO-kBwf5Y8=0pZkEEVRpndK8NEdKXkt2pxS4yA%2B0L5pU9VFbgw@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1601041551450.65744@mail.fig.ol.no>
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On 04/01/2016 14:57, Trond Endrestøl wrote: > On Mon, 4 Jan 2016 14:39-0000, Paul Stuffins wrote: > >> Afternoon Everyone, >> >> I have a spare desktop lying around here that I want to turn into a basic >> bandwidth monitor, along with various other things including website >> filtering. >> >> I have seen https://www.untangle.com, which I believe is based on FreeBSD, >> but I am not keen on paying the $50 a month for a license, is there any >> software that anyone can recommend to me? >> >> My needs, to start with, are basically to monitor what devices are >> connected, and how much each device transfers on a hourly/daily/monthly >> basis, and potentially apply limits to each device. > A partial solution could be your spare desktop acting as a bridge(4) > using two NICs, and sysutils/darkstat as the monitoring software. > > If you can't or don't want to pass traffic back and forth through the > spare desktop, try port mirroring (Cisco SPAN port/monitor session), > "ifconfig em1 up monitor", and sysutils/darkstat. > I was thinking of adding a second NIC, and positioning it between my modem and the rest of my network. Paul
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