Barracuda Networks makes a web filter that is an appliance which sets between your router and the broadband modem. Even if you don't use the filtering features it has extremely thorough monitoring and report utilities. It is agentless so there is nothing to install. Just be sure you notify your members before engaging in any monitoring and/or filtering to avoid any privacy issues.
Jesse L. Jones, Owner MATSU TECHNICAL SERVICES, LLC 888.806.2587 Sent from my Windows Mobile phone and protected by Norton Smartphone Security. -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Badera <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 16, 2010 9:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Coworking] Passive Network Monitoring On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Jacob Sayles <[email protected]> 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 [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.c [The entire original message is not included] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
