From: dusth@comcast.net
Date: Fri Jun 24 2005 - 12:55:42 GMT-3
Have you check out netenforcer?dustin
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> Thanks for the feedback, im looking at a simple solution, with not any 
> programming or unix involved, something that will run easily on windows. 
> sincerely, 
> John 
> 
> On 6/24/05, Lee Carter wrote: 
> > 
> > I typically use (for smaller companies) 
> > 
> > Cacti at centeral site to get a snapshot of all sites 
> > and their utalization. 
> > 
> > If a site is high on bandwidth utalization and I need 
> > more info I deploy a small linux box running ntop 
> > (http://www.ntop.org/ntop.html) and that tells me the 
> > utalization by user and by application in a graphical 
> > format. I will also install IPTraff which is a great 
> > CLI utility for seeing top talkers in a text based 
> > format. Real handy if you are SSH'ing into the remote 
> > linux box and wanting to do sniffer traces or advanced 
> > troublehsooting. (Just remember to deny SSH to the 
> > local linux box as you will always look like the top 
> > talker. (or possibly come in on a second interface.. 
> > really depends on your topology. 
> > 
> > Other than that you may want to consider for your 
> > centeral site a local TFTP Server, Syslog Server 
> > (Syslog-NG), Radius for centeralized authentication, 
> > NTP Server and running Expect or some other 
> > interactive programming language so that you can run 
> > ad-hoc scripts on all your routers to change banners, 
> > passwords... ect automatically. 
> > 
> > HTH 
> > 
> > Lee 
> > 
> > 
> > --- john matijevic wrote: 
> > 
> > > Hello Team, 
> > > I have evaluated the following products already: 
> > > mrtg 
> > > cacti 
> > > ciscoworks 
> > > Does anyone know of any other bandwidth 
> > > utilization programs, that they 
> > > prefer over others? 
> > > Sincerely, 
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > John Matijevic, CCIE #13254 
> > > U.S. Installation Group 
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> > > 
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> John Matijevic, CCIE #13254 
> U.S. Installation Group 
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