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List:       freebsd-isp
Subject:    Re: Tracking Machine Bandwidth
From:       Willow  <willow () tds ! edu>
Date:       1998-11-20 13:43:06
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Did you also try to configure and run mrtg?  It's in the ports directory
and I havent found an SNMP device yet that it cant poll and produce usage
stats on.

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On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Troy Settle wrote:

> 
> 
> 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
> > 
> > 
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