[GRLUG] Finding the bandwidth hog

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Tue, 2012-02-07 at 15:43 -0500, Benjamin Flanders wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> 
> We have a couple HP Procurves.  I don't believe that they are managed,
> at least I have never gone in there and managed anything.  Do I sound
> like a newbie?  I'm not a young pup, I just don't know anything.

We have HP Procurve switches;  AFAIK all Procurve's are managed.

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