On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Jacob Sayles <ja...@officenomads.com>wrote:
> Hello, > > I'm researching ways to monitor network usage that is unobtrusive and > invisible to the users of our space. We considered requiring everyone to > login to the system but I'm not sure how to indefinitely log someone in and > our residents don't want to have to log in every day on every device. One > thought I had was to export the ARP table of our firewall and match the mac > addresses to individual users in our member database. That is rather crude > and only gets us who's on, when. Any other tricks/tools people are using? > Anyone interested in forming a working group to explore this together? > > Why monitor the usage of paying, adult customers to begin with? That said, plenty of firewalls have logs that track these things. Syslog can be used on many of the more decent firewall/routers as well. Or, put up a simple proxy for outside access. ∞ Andy Badera ∞ +1 518-641-1280 Google Voice ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew%20badera -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to cowork...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
