[Gllug] Data transfer monitoring

[John Hearns]

On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Luke Hopkins wrote:

> Morning all,
> 
> We have a small public network of 8 IP's, mixed OS's which run through a
> router out into the ether.
> Our provider won't allow us to monitor SNMP on the router, so its
> proving quite difficult to monitor which boxes are transferring what.
> 
Is http://wwwntop.org any use to you?

Also Google for netflow

Apologies, but I'm a bit busy at the moment.
Solution off the top of my head would be to get a switch which does
port mirroring.
Mirror the port which the router uses to a Linux box which is
running ntop.
Real apologies if this is nonsense.

Even nicer - get yourself a mini-ITX, or maybe better a Lex
with dual ethernet, plus a Comact Flash-IDE adapter.
Get the nbox-86 image (they want a small donation)
Seems to do just what you want - pass through ntop probing.

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