rmsolino on 28 Apr 2008 10:00:24 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] syslog - any easy way out?


jeff wrote:
> I'm unclear on how it would assist in the case of tracking down who or 
> what is sucking up bandwidth at an unprecedented rate.  Last time things 
> got sluggish I took a firewall dump, fed it into Wireshark and came up 
> with the bandwidth-sucking IP's (yes, it's not fair, those Beyonce 
> videos were job-related).
ok, you need to know who top-talkers are. Do you have access to your 
routers?
If you can enable "netflow" you can collect info about endpoints and 
protocol/traffic for analysis.

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