[olug] Home bandwidth monitoring

[Dan Linder]

And for anyone interested, I just came across a package called "YAMon" -
Yet Another Monitor.

http://usage-monitoring.com/

I haven't looked into it in depth yet, but the reports and functionality
seem like what I'm looking for.

Dan


On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 9:29 PM, Dan Linder <dan at linder.org> wrote:

> Here is my first stab at a script to do something basic I wrote tonight.
>
> https://github.com/dglinder/NetBWMon
>
> Basically start it running on a system and it starts sniffing the network
> port (I'm going to make a network tap for my RPi and put it on a common
> link).  It then dumps the stats of conversations to a text file for later
> processing.  I also need to prepend the time on each line to make
> daily/hourly reports easier.
>
> It's a start, though I'm really surprised I didn't find anything that did
> this pre-existing.  Everything I found was for monitoring the bandwidth on
> the single server it was running on.
>
> DanL
>
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 9:39 AM, Lou Duchez <lou at paprikash.com> wrote:
>
>> I use a Fedora server as my router, and I wrote a Perl script ages ago
>> that checks the connection tracking table every second and spits out stats
>> of which IPs are sending traffic to where.  It's crude and I question its
>> fine-grained accuracy, but it gives me a fair sense of what traffic is
>> happening.
>>
>>
>> I'm looking to setup a home network bandwidth monitoring system at home
>>> and
>>> wanted to see what others might have done.
>>>
>>> Optimally I want to see on a per-device level so I can track down
>>> unexpected usage, but even tracking on a per-destination (YouTube,
>>> Netflix,
>>> Amazon Video) and/or per protocol (http/https, BitTorrent, IRC) would be
>>> helpful.
>>>
>>> If I can get by with using a RPi with a network TAP I'd go that route,
>>> but
>>> I'm also open to reflashing my TP-Link Archer C9 router (nice one BTW)
>>> with
>>> something else if that helps.
>>>
>>> Anyone gone down this route recently?
>>>
>>> Dan
>>>
>>>
>
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