Hello,

I am using a gateway based on Ubuntu. Users can authenticate on it and
gets a route to the internet.
Now I am looking for a tool which will monitor the traffic every users
causes. It should log the throughput over time for every ip address and
show it in graphs.
I thought about nagios or cacti, but at the moment I think it won't fit
my needs.
Maybe iptraf could do what I want, but I need access through a web browser.

Thanks in advance.

Thomas

On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:35:01 +0100,
Thomas <thomas_2@arcor.de> wrote:

> I am using a gateway based on Ubuntu. Users can authenticate on it
> and gets a route to the internet.

Out of interest, what are you using to handle that?

I'm trying to figure out how to set up shared a Vista box so that each
user (and preferably the system in stuff), have their own separate
traffic stats on my gateway so I can split the bill properly.


Fredderic

Fredderic wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:35:01 +0100,
> Thomas <thomas_2@arcor.de> wrote:
>
>> I am using a gateway based on Ubuntu. Users can authenticate on it
>> and gets a route to the internet.
>
> Out of interest, what are you using to handle that?
>
> I'm trying to figure out how to set up shared a Vista box so that each
> user (and preferably the system in stuff), have their own separate
> traffic stats on my gateway so I can split the bill properly.
>
>
> Fredderic

I am offering an internet access for a few people. To keep the network
running (slow provider bandwidth i.e. 6 MBit) every client has to follow
some rules. But to locate power users I want to know the used bandwidth
over the time. So I can react on their behavior. I.e. they should not
start big downloads in the rush hour.

But I think I found a very powerful tool which could fit my needs. It's
ntop, I'm actually trying this.

Thomas

On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 03:19:32 +1000, Fredderic wrote:

> On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:35:01 +0100,
> Thomas <thomas_2@arcor.de> wrote:
>
>> I am using a gateway based on Ubuntu. Users can authenticate on it and
>> gets a route to the internet.
>
> Out of interest, what are you using to handle that?
>
> I'm trying to figure out how to set up shared a Vista box so that each
> user (and preferably the system in stuff), have their own separate
> traffic stats on my gateway so I can split the bill properly.
>
>
> Fredderic

There's a good piece on using iptables to monitor bandwidth usage here:
http://www.linux.com/articles/50649


Dave


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