Josh Paetzel wrote:
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 23:52, Brett Glass wrote:
Add a few IPFW "count" rules to count the bytes and packets. Then,
periodically harvest and reset the counters via a cron job and
write the results to a file. You can then prepare tables and charts
which are as simple or as fancy as you please, without resorting to
SNMP (which isn't secure). A little bit of code in your favorite
scripting language will do it. And of course you can output to a
graphing package, though for me a simple histogram using asterisks
has sufficient precision in most cases.
--Brett Glass
Just curious.....but where is he going to run ipfw? I seriously doubt
his router can run it, and what good is it going to do him to run it
on a machine on the network if the network is switched? It's not
going to be able to see any of the traffic other than what that
specific machine is sending/receiving.
run ipfw in layer 2 after turning on promiscuous mode and attaching it
to a hub.
I do it all the time.
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