Which user (machine) is using all the bandwidth

[dragonslayr]

I feel a bit dumb asking this, because I should already know the answer…

How can I quickly find out which machines are hogging all the bandwidth?

[steph78630 (Steph)]

Hi @dragonslayr ,

you can install sarg addon under Pakfire :

With history and graphs, it’s happiness !

[roberto (Roberto Peña)]

Easy is with iftop addon. In real time.

[jon]

Sarg did not work for me…

Sarg seems to be looking at non-SSL type data (e.g., HTTP and not HTTPS).

Data usage monitoring

For me Sarg did not give me the correct info. For all of November 2019: Comcast = 411 GB from the Comcast website IPFire = 413.36 GiB from IPFire WUI menu Status > Net-Traffic SARG = 110.44 G Bytes from the Squid Analysis Report Generator Maybe SARG is only looking at non-SSL type data? (e.g., HTTP and not HTTPS). I am guessing!

 

EDIT: Maybe pmacct will help.

Pmacct - A lightweight passive network monitoring tool

Hello community, since a couple of years now i use Pmacct --> http://www.pmacct.net/ which seems to me as a nice tool for network management tasks like billing, live or historical traffic trends analysis, real-time alerting and a lot more. It can uses on IPFire without further installations PIPEs, flat-file but also Sqlite to outline the results. Might this be a nice tool for IPFire ? In case it is, i can send it as a new Monitoring Addon to the Mailinglist. Best, Erik

[steph78630 (Steph)]

you’re right @roberto especially since we can see the bandwidth of each network independently !

[xperimental (Terry)]

Is there a web interface implementation for it? Can’t see it!

[dragonslayr]

Seems to be command line only. As long as the user is “currently” using the bandwidth, I guess this may be useful. Not exactly optimal for this. I’d rather a graph that points out in red, “THIS IS THE IDIOT WATCHING PORN AT WORK”.

[kirkgrier]

Hi guys - new here posting but I have long used iptraf for this. In fact, ipfire is installed as my home router now when I was WTH? the Netgear Orbi can not tell me top talkers? iptraf-ng is in Pakfire. I blew through the Cox transfer cap so I configuring up ubuntu 18.x LTS on a MiniPC to put on a switch span port when I went “hmmmm, wonder what ipfire is rocking these days??” - Kirk