I have a small network with mtnl broadband
i want to check for each computer is using how much inernet in mb & which sites
can someone help how to do it
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how to check which computer is using most internet site
1st Jan 2007
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FIrewall Appliance or Web Proxy
Many firewall appliances - hardware and software - have this capability. If you are a Microsoft site, Microsoft's ISA Server is part of their architecture. If you do not have a server but happen to have a spare PC, you can download and install a Linux distribution free of charge. For example Ubuntu is available as a Live CD, Fedora Core 6 comes on 6 CDs or one DVD. Most Linux distributions have Squid proxy server - see http://www.squid-cache.org.
You need to point the browser settings in each workstation to the Squid server. If your users are restricted users, not local administrators or power users, in Windows XP, they cannot change the settings. Apart from caching the web pages and reducing the amount of internet traffic, Squid collects information about the web sites the workstations visit.
You can also implement policies like allowing or prohibiting browsing to certain sites, by user or the workstation IP address, or restricting browsing to the lunchbreak and after hours.
A few years ago I installed Redhat 9 and ran Squid on an old PC for 100+ users. It was a very reliable system and ran for months without problems. I could also filter out domains with the word mail in them, to prevent the users from downloading their private mail through webmail servers. That was not a very popular move, but it helped to keep worms out of the systems.
You need to point the browser settings in each workstation to the Squid server. If your users are restricted users, not local administrators or power users, in Windows XP, they cannot change the settings. Apart from caching the web pages and reducing the amount of internet traffic, Squid collects information about the web sites the workstations visit.
You can also implement policies like allowing or prohibiting browsing to certain sites, by user or the workstation IP address, or restricting browsing to the lunchbreak and after hours.
A few years ago I installed Redhat 9 and ran Squid on an old PC for 100+ users. It was a very reliable system and ran for months without problems. I could also filter out domains with the word mail in them, to prevent the users from downloading their private mail through webmail servers. That was not a very popular move, but it helped to keep worms out of the systems.
2nd Jan 2007
