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Title: monitor Internet usage from home.sme server?
Post by: dazza101 on June 20, 2014, 01:06:34 PM

I've got everything set up on my home network sme 8.1 in bridge mode to my modem adsl. the main reason for doing this is i need to monitor my Internet usage, we change to a new Internet provider everything was good for a month or so, then the data usage went throug the roof. it's not like that someone has gained access to my local wireless of course it is possible. so if anyone can guide me to which would be the best add on for this purpose would be greatly appreciated thanks in advance.

Title: Re: monitor Internet usage from home.sme server?
Post by: Daniel B. on June 20, 2014, 01:22:24 PM

From the command line, you can check with iptraf which is installed by default. I personnaly prefer iftop (another interactive trafic monitor from the command line) which you can install from EPEL. With those tools, you should be able to track which internal IP is consumming the bandwidth

Title: Re: monitor Internet usage from home.sme server?
Post by: dazza101 on June 20, 2014, 02:13:35 PM

thank you for your reply Daniel B. i'm more of a graphical interface person, command line is something i'm not very good at but will stumble my way through it if that's my only option?? thanks again your have definitely give me a way to archieve my goals.

Title: Re: monitor Internet usage from home.sme server?
Post by: Daniel B. on June 20, 2014, 02:17:47 PM

There are graphical tools too (vnstat, sme8admin, ntop, zabbix), but to quickly find who's using what, interactive tools from the shell will be far more efficient