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

[Rudi Ahlers]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 8:46 AM, frans <dormakorp at vodamail.co.za> wrote:
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> On 11/03/09 21:22 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
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>> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Shawn Reitstein<shawnreit at gmail.com>
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>>> 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.

Really?

How would you log traffic usage on SSH ? More specificaly, if a user
on your LAN uses SSH as a tunnel to download stuff of another server,
how would you log that traffic usage?

OR, how would you log POP3 traffic usage with SQUID?



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