Topic: Real time display of bandwidth thieves?

[Dan]

I use 5.6U5 on several machines in small wireless ISP. I have QoS set up on all of them to load balance the bandwidth usage of my clients but sometimes I notice that things slow down a little - it's only after the SARG cron job running at midnight that I can find out who was doing the huge downloads.

Is there any way I can see in realtime where the bandwidth is going? I suppose a manual command to run SARG via SSH would suffice if there was no other elegant solution?

[Nathan Fowler]

Perhaps:
http://ipband.sourceforge.net/

The "Sample Subnet Summary with -d 2 option" looks like something that may be very useful to you.  It's pcap based too, which means it should work fine with 5.6 after you install pcap.

[Nathan Fowler]

Also, may want to check out ntop as well.

[Cyrus Bharda]

Also there is netprobe, I find netprobe easier to use than ntop, but that's just my personal opinion.

There's a howto here:

http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/cbharda/howto/netprobe-howto.htm

Enjoy!

Cyrus Bharda

[Dan]

Thanks all!