Re: looking for a solution...

["Casey Boone" <ophidian@mychoice.net>]

this is just the type of solution i was looking for

:)

this coupled with traffic precedence(sp?) on the router should be quite nice

Casey


> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Casey Boone [mailto:ophidian@mychoice.net]
> >Sent: Monday, December 24, 2001 4:25 PM
> >To: silug-discuss@silug.org
> >Subject: looking for a solution...
> >
> >
> >i am need of a solution that will allow me to monitor tcpip traffic and
> >gather statistics concerning what kinds of traffic are generating the
> >most bandwidth, and also be able to throttle certain kinds of traffic
> >anyone know of any good way of approaching this?  i dont want to do it
> >on the router itself, i would much prefer a solution that i can place
> >between the router and the rest of the network...
>
> Check out Darren Reeds' IPFilter package; compiles on most Unix (and maybe
Linux, I haven't tried it) platforms, does most of what you asked for, is a
great NAT/Firewall/Multicast router, plus has a lifelong guaranteed no-rust
blade which will never, ever need re-sharpening.
> http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/
>
> You should have no problem configuring a box as a transparent router (ala
bridge) that will silently pass all packets from the network to the router,
while maintaining the stats you are looking for.  If you configure the box
with a web server, the IP Accounting package can export the stats into an
HTML format, based on a number of items, depending on how you gather your
stats within IPFilter.
>
> IP Accounting Package for Darren Reed's IP Filter
> http://www2.empnet.com/ipacct/
>
> You can also use IPFilter and IP Accounting in a for the same purposes in
a non-switched environment, if you are not interested in setting it up as a
firewall/router.
>
> >
> >anyone have any ideas? doesnt have to be OSS or "Free", just needs to be
> >reliable
>
> As it happens, IPFilter is available only in source form.  It is
recommended  that it be compiled for each system it will be installed on.
Also, there is a support mailing list, on which there are some VERY
knowledgeable people.
>
> >
> > Casey
>
> HTH,
> William
> --
> William Underwood
> wllmundrwd@netscape.net
>
>
>
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