Bandwidth Monitoring program

Brett Glass brett at lariat.net
Wed Dec 6 08:05:06 PST 2006


At 02:13 AM 12/6/2006, Josh Paetzel wrote:

>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.

Of course, if his machine isn't acting as a router or bridge, and is 
not attached to a hub or the management port of a switch, there's no 
way that it could measure the traffic. So, we must assume that one
of these things is true. Otherwise, all bets are off from the start.

--Brett Glass 



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