On 06/24/2011 10:42 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 24/06/11 13:08, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> On Fri, 2011-06-24 at 07:38 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: >>> I have a home LAN and limited internet access. If I exceed the >>> usage specified in my subscription my data rates are slowed. >>> >>> There are a dozen devices that can connect to the internet and >>> five or six people using them. yesterday someone left something >>> running and by the time I realized the problem we had used more >>> than a gigabyte which doesn't sound like much if you have >>> unlimited usage but we only get 17 gigs per month. >>> >>> I shut down the other computers but never identified which one >>> had been causing the problem. >>> >>> Can someone suggest a way of measuring usage per device, >>> identifying them by address, MAC, or uuid? I really need to know >>> which one is the offender to control the problem. >> Depending on your router, you *might* be able to query it using SNMP >> (Simple Network Management protocol), which is used to collect all kinds >> of statistics. I'm afraid I can't help you with the details, but start >> by checking if your router supports it. >> >> poc >> > > That may be part of my problem with logging. SNMP was disabled. > > > SNMP > SNMP > Enable Disable > Location > Contact > Name > RO Community > RW Community > > I wonder what it wants entered in "Location?" The router > address, 192.168.1.1 ? I will try leaving it "Unknown" and see > if it changes the NTOP data on the F-14 computer. "Location" is used to put in some user-defined text to help you identify where the device is physically, e.g. "Wiring closet 3" or some such. > DD-WRT also > has a log display that has not been working, perhaps because SNP > was not enabled. I've enabled it now. There are a lot of items > to configure and not much helpful documentation. Generally logging hasn't anything to do with SNMP. They're two different functions. If it's not logging, it may not be enabled in the router's configuration. It may be logging to an external system (like via syslog) so you might want to check that. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, C2 Hosting ricks@xxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick" - - themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened." - - -- Winston Churchill - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
