Comments on: Keeping tabs on your bandwidth usage

By: imel

imel — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:21:56 +0000

Hi Gerhard, does it have to be someone based in Cape Town?
Maybe you can open up ssh or openvpn access to the box for someone to do the config remotely?

By: Gerhard

Gerhard — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 07:50:26 +0000

Hi, does anyone know of someone in Cape Town who can set up/maintain my Linux proxy currently running Squid?

By: imel

imel — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:21:55 +0000

Hi Stephen, I use dansguardian to virus scan traffic but also to filter out illegal movies and mp3 downloads.
There is also a quality issue, as I want all users to get a good connection. If someone downloads a large file (movie) then it takes all the bandwidth and all the other users get a degraded service.
I did look at darkstat but it is a bit too limited in the depth of stats it provides, but agree, it is usefull where a lightweight monitoring solution is required.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:53:57 +0000

If your clients are paying to use the internet, why use dansguardian to filter content? You should have them pay per gb and have them do what they want with it. The more gb’s they use, the more they have to buy from you.

Instead of Ntop, have you had a look at Darkstat yet? I’ve seen that ntop is quite a resource hog.