Hi Dennis

interesting but needs a dedicated PC to run it. (Which I don't have at the moment)

I'm really looking for something that'll just monitor traffic and give me some idea of whats generating it.


>Nicholas,
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>I mainly want to know who is using what package and how much traffic its generating. Would a firewall approach give me that ?
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> I know only the devices I allow are using the network so I don't think MAC address filtering would be useful.
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>My netgear router doesn't seem to have much in the way of monitoring
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>If u want to know who is into what, then a gateway firewall is the way to go. Check http://www.untangle.com out. This is what I use. Free. Open source. You only need a low-end PC like a 386 to do the job. Any of your existing PCs may be used as well. You can block, allow, set a lot of stuff.
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>Cheers!
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>Dennis