docrice
join:2008-03-31
Fremont, CA
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May 25th, @09:04PM
| reply to amartinas
Re: watching my wireless network
If you're using 802.11 encryption and / or client isolation features on the WLAN (on Cisco APs, they call it "Public Secure Packet Forwarding"), this gets difficult to see stuff between clients. On the other hand, you can always mirror a port on your switch (assuming this switch provides that capability) and sniff on that assuming your AP is only bridging clients and not routing them.
I'm sure there are all kinds of devices out there that monitor content traffic, but these tend to be provider / enterprise-class appliances and they're expensive. How about a transparent proxy via Squid?
Bandwidth utilization can probably be done on a per-port level via SNMP to something like Cacti, Zenoss, Nagios, OpenNMS, etc.. You know what else might work is Ntop, although I don't want to refer you to a Frankenstein setup. |
