A router with the tomato firmware would
probably be best as it gives you many options for bandwidth utilization graphs.
-Adam
From:
wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Owen Thomas
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008
5:57 AM
To: Community support list for
Wireshark
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-users]
Network traffic between my router and my ISP?
Thanks fellas.
It looks a bit involved. I'll check if my modem gives me these figures.
Owen.
2008/12/30 Luis EG Ontanon <luis@xxxxxxxxxxx>
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at
9:27 AM, Pedro Tumusok <pedro.tumusok@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Owen Thomas <owen.paul.thomas@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> > Hello Wireshark users.
> >
> > I have installed wireshark on my laptop. That laptop is connected to
my
> > wireless router, and my wireless router is connected to my ISP
through an
> > ADSL modem.
> >
> > Can I get the instance of wireshark running on my laptop to collect
network
> > traffic between router and ISP?
> >
>
> You can place a switch between the Wireless Router and ADSL modem and
> span the correct ports.
> Then you connect your laptop to the switch with a wire to the spanned
> port and then you can capture the traffic between your router and
> modem.
Well once you've put a managed switch there you probably want to use
the statistics of the switch instead of wireshark to calculate
volumes.
> --
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