[ubuntu-za] Monitoring Bandwidth used on a Home Network

[frans]

On 11/03/09 21:22 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Shawn Reitstein<shawnreit at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> I rather like Squid, as it does save some cap, and there are logging of
>> all traffic used, you can have your users log in, restrict bandwidth etc.
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> But squid doesn't keep track of SMTP, POP3, IMAP, SSH, MySQL, DNS, etc
> traffic. For this you would rather use something like bandwidthd
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All this should be possible with the right acl and log rules though it 
might be more difficult to setup...If you do everything through the 
proxy you should be able to log everything, same as with your firewall, 
in the end it would come down to preference and exactly how much you are 
willing to put into this.