Bandwidth Monitoring program

[Benjamin D Adams]

On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 16:25 -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> Benjamin D Adams wrote:
> > What my network looks like:
> > 		NET
> > 		 |
> >              NAT/FIREWALL(2.1.24.34)
> > 		 |
> > 	-------------------    <---- put a cheap hub here
> > 	|	|	  |
> >    2.1.24.35   2.1.24.36  2.1.24.37
> > 
> 
> if you place a cheap 100Mb hub in the location shown, then
> you should be able to look at all traffic that is headed to the firewall
> by listenning on .35

Yes there is a SWITCH there, do you mean listen to port 35?  would I do
a packet sniffer on 2.1.24.34 just port 35?

> 
> 
> 
> > There is no DHCP, I don't think it is possablie to do this but I want to
> > install a bandwidth monitoring program on 2.1.24.35.  That will monitor
> > all traffic going through 2.1.24.34.  I installed bandwidthd but it's
> > only local traffic I can't get all traffic through 2.1.24.34.  I think I
> > need to but a middle man between NET and 2.1.24.34.  I don't have any
> > more ips to use. 2.1.24.34 is a firewall like netgear, linksys, etc
> > setup with NAT.
> > 
> > What I see is I need to replace the NAT with something where I have a
> > shell. I don't think it is possible with the current setup, but figured
> > I would ask. Thanks for any help.
> > 
> > Ben Adams
> > 
> > \eebsd.org"