[TriLUG] tool to report on used bandwidth

[Ron Kelley]

Bandwidthd or Darkstat



On Sep 18, 2013, at 1:10 PM, porter <porter at trilug.org> wrote:

> 
> I have a friend in India who posed a question to me, and I'm going to
> forward it to the collective TriLUG mind for more insight.
> 
> He is interested in monitoring his home bandwidth usage, with detailed
> statistics on what's using the bandwidth.  For example, 2GB from YouTube,
> and so on.
> 
> In his case, he has a broadband connection that starts throttling after
> he hits 9GB of transfer per month.  He would like to be able to monitor
> (1) how much he has used and (2) where he used it.
> 
> He suspects that one of his machines at home may be infected with malware
> that is using some of his quota.  Knowing the destination addresses (or
> even source addresses) might help track this down.
> 
> My assumptions:
> - There are multiple machines (laptops, tablets) on his home network.
> - He is running at least one Windows machine, which may be infected.
> - He has a Linux-based router, or he can insert a Linux box at the
>   appropriate place in the network to do this measurement.
> 
> He says that he has tried using Ethereal/Wireshark, but that was like
> drinking from the firehose (I am also guessing that if he's running it
> on the Windows box, it might not report the malware traffic).
> 
> So I plan to suggest using a Linux box as a router, or a Linux-based
> router, and then using a package that monitors connections and network
> usage.  The question is... what would be a good tool for measuring this?
> 
> 
> Alan
> 
> 
> 
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