Excessive system usage problem -
Bob Goodwin
bobgoodwin at wildblue.net
Fri Jun 24 17:42:12 UTC 2011
On 24/06/11 13:08, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-06-24 at 07:38 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>> I have a home LAN and limited internet access. If I exceed the
>> usage specified in my subscription my data rates are slowed.
>>
>> There are a dozen devices that can connect to the internet and
>> five or six people using them. yesterday someone left something
>> running and by the time I realized the problem we had used more
>> than a gigabyte which doesn't sound like much if you have
>> unlimited usage but we only get 17 gigs per month.
>>
>> I shut down the other computers but never identified which one
>> had been causing the problem.
>>
>> Can someone suggest a way of measuring usage per device,
>> identifying them by address, MAC, or uuid? I really need to know
>> which one is the offender to control the problem.
> Depending on your router, you *might* be able to query it using SNMP
> (Simple Network Management protocol), which is used to collect all kinds
> of statistics. I'm afraid I can't help you with the details, but start
> by checking if your router supports it.
>
> poc
>
That may be part of my problem with logging. SNMP was disabled.
SNMP
SNMP
Enable Disable
Location
Contact
Name
RO Community
RW Community
I wonder what it wants entered in "Location?" The router
address, 192.168.1.1 ? I will try leaving it "Unknown" and see
if it changes the NTOP data on the F-14 computer. DD-WRT also
has a log display that has not been working, perhaps because SNP
was not enabled. I've enabled it now. There are a lot of items
to configure and not much helpful documentation.
I may be grasping at straws here but it might help.
Thanks,
Bob
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