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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