Re: Need a per-user network traffic statistics tool Nikos Chantziaras pisze:
> pk wrote:
>> On Monday 5 May 2008 12:52, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>
>>> Anyone knows of a good tool that can report network traffic along with
>>> how much bandwidth each user consumed?
>>
>> You don't provide much detail, however I suppose that by "each user" you
>> mean "each ip/mac address/host", otherwise things become complicated.
>
> Sorry for that, I should have explained better. By "user" I mean the
> actual user ID on the system, not a host or NIC. The exact details look
> like this: I get an email from the IT department that machine X
> generated 2TB of outgoing traffic in 1 week. Now I already know how
> this traffic was generated; Bit Torrent. But it's a machine with about
> 150 users, so I'd like a way to find out which user is responsible for
> the traffic peak.
>
> I don't think I need traffic shaping or quotas. Just a means to see how
> much bandwidth each user consumed so I can simply email them to throttle
> their downloads and uploads in the future.
>
> I guess actual per-user traffic shaping would be quite complicated, so
> that's why I asked about a tool that can give the info I need.
You can use --uid-owner for markng per-user traffic and in qos match it
to correct policy.
Regards,
Pawel Mojski |