[GRLUG] Finding the bandwidth hog

[Clay Ashby]

+1 HP Procurve. They are nice devices considering their price. Log into one
and goof around with it if you get a chance.

Upgrading your internet is good advice. You can get some good non-T1
service (cable, etc) which is still business class from any provider.
Granted your upload won't be much faster than what your T1 is now, but your
download (pandora) will be huge in comparison. If i remember right Charter
is now offering 100meg, but of course simply mentioning the name of any ISP
is bound to start a debate, so I add a disclaimer. I am not endorsing
anyone! :P

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Adam Tauno Williams
<awilliam at whitemice.org>wrote:

> 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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