Identifying Bandwidth Hogs

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Date: Wednesday, July 9, 2008 - 1:51 am

Hello,

can someone recommend me a good way to quickly determine who on the
network is using up most the Bandwith, and preferrably, what are the
using it for?

I have a 4.3 Machine, which is the Firewall and Router for a Network
with about 100 Machines. Every once in a while, i see the Traffic
picking up consideribly when using bwm-ng to check. During normal
Operation, i know the average Kilobytes per second is around 100kbps ,
but when bwm-ng shows me the traffic is going up 750kbps, and then i
know something is up.

Normally then i use something like pftop -s 1 -o rate , and then find
out who is on top of the list. I wonder if anyone has a better way of
finding Bandwidth Hogs. On an older FreeBSD System, i simply installed
iftop, which quickly showed me my top Users. Similar to bwm-ng, but
basically showing you per IP who is using how much Bandwidth.

Ideally would be a way that not only shows me quickly who is using the
most Bandwidth, but also, if they are using it for HTTP traffic, or
simply downloading a large mail or having a Skype Conversation or else.

Excellent would also be a way i can somehow graph all of that, so that
even when i am not in the office, i can identify people who are doing
things they shouldnt. I do have an RRD Graph for my main Interface, so i
can say for example a few hours ago something made the Traffic pick up
to 750kbps for 20 minutes, but i have no idea who it was. I once had all
my protocols and IP's labeled, and used pfctl -s labels to parse them
into my rrd files, but the whole process with collecting and graphing
got quite slow.

Also i tried darkstat, but its doesnt do a better job than current
bwm-ng and pftop.

Thanks for any suggestions,
David

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Messages in current thread:
Identifying Bandwidth Hogs, David Schulz, (Wed Jul 9, 1:51 am)
Re: Identifying Bandwidth Hogs, Joe S, (Sun Jul 13, 8:02 pm)
Re: Identifying Bandwidth Hogs, Zamri Besar, (Mon Jul 14, 12:23 pm)
Re: Identifying Bandwidth Hogs, Peter N. M. Hansteen, (Mon Jul 14, 4:09 am)
Re: Identifying Bandwidth Hogs, Sean Malloy, (Fri Jul 11, 2:44 am)
Re: Identifying Bandwidth Hogs, Dave Wilson, (Wed Jul 16, 7:48 am)
Re: Identifying Bandwidth Hogs, Martin Schröder, (Wed Jul 9, 4:47 am)