Excessive system usage problem -

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

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