Bandwidth Monitoring

[Dragon]

Hi,

I wanted to find out if there is a free/close to free utility that I can use
on my remote site to monitor bandwidth utilization between remote site and
central site. Essentially, I am not interested in see remote site systems
surfing the web etc. I simply want to monitor how much data is being
transfered to a particular IP address.

I am trying to find out what my bandwidth requirements are for an
application. Central site is using Windows server 2003 while remote site is
on XP.

Thank you.

 

[Grant Taylor]

On 09/15/09 05:42, Dragon wrote:
> I wanted to find out if there is a free/close to free utility that I
> can use on my remote site to monitor bandwidth utilization between
> remote site and central site. Essentially, I am not interested in see
> remote site systems surfing the web etc. I simply want to monitor how
> much data is being transfered to a particular IP address.
>
> I am trying to find out what my bandwidth requirements are for an
> application. Central site is using Windows server 2003 while remote
> site is on XP.

Do your routers support NetFlow Data Export? If they do, take a look at
setting up a NetFlow collector. (Think a form of network sniffer in line.)

Have you considered any thing like Etherial / WireShark to capture
packets for later analysis / bandwidth consumption calculation?



Grant. . . .