[afnog] Viewing LAN traffic

[Phil Regnauld]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 04:32:54AM -0700, Elly wrote:
> Hi All, 
> 
> For the past few weeks, I have been searching for an open source solution to monitor host traffic basic on IP (not read/sniff packets). I'm looking for something similar to Cisco Netflow feature, that can gather traffic consumption on a single IP.
> 
> I have currently deploy the following tools.
> 1. Cacti & NTOP - Graphical tool that uses rrdtool
> 2. Squid proxy server - controls LAN usage. But doesn't gather data consumption.
> 3. WireShark - Packet sniffer.
> 
> Any ideas on other tools i could use?

	Netflow will do it, properly setup.  Otherwise you can look at
	something like IPFM either directly on the gateway if it's a UNIX
	host or using a port mirror from the gateway's port to the UNIX host.

	http://robert.cheramy.net/ipfm/