[GRLUG] Finding the bandwidth hog

[Michael Mol]

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Benjamin Flanders <flanderb at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been tasked to find out what running on our network that is
> taking a good chunk of our internet bandwidth.  Quite simply I don't
> know where to start.  I've got all the people that stream music to
> stop, and we are still seeing a lot of traffic.  Will wireshark help
> out?  What other programs are out there?  I do have a cisco pix
> firewall that perhaps I could use, if I knew how.

What kind of router are you currently using? If it's a Linux box, I'd
suggest trying 'iftop'. Unless your version of iftop has the IPv6
patches, though, it'll only show you IPv4 flows.

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