bandwidth capture question
Ken D'Ambrosio
ken at jots.org
Fri May 4 13:24:40 EDT 2018
Hey, Joshua. Honestly, you're "doing it wrong," for a few reasons.
* Capturing *everything* would be huge -- almost certainly fill up your
hard disk in relatively short order.
* Wireshark isn't the thing to capture it with. If you want that, dump
it using "tcpdump" (or its Windows equivalent), and then look at it
later, with Wireshark.
* But, as noted in the initial point, that gets big, VERY fast.
Instead, I would recommend just watching metrics -- does Windows show
byte counts on an interface? If so, monitor that minute-by-minute. Or
-- probably an even better choice -- get some software that will monitor
per-IP usage. Though others may have actual suggestions on software to
use, as I don't.
However, NONE of that will even work if you don't have a switch set up
with port mirroring. Ethernet these days is switched, which means that
simply plugging into the same switch will only show you broadcast
traffic, not point-to-point traffic. So you'd miss out on something
like 99% of the data. Given the scenario you mention (basically,
"Comcast modem"), I think you'll probably need to pick up a smart
Ethernet switch -- one that has port mirroring -- to even get started
down this road.
All of this is relatively non-trivial, but could probably be worked
through if you're really trying to make it happen.
-Ken
On 2018-05-04 13:09, jsf wrote:
> Hi friends,
>
> I am IT dir. at a small independent school in CT nowadays. I have a comcast modem. my firewall plugs into a wired port in the comcast modem. I have an old PC running windows 8.1. I have installed wireshark on the old PC. I have plugged the old PC's network interface into another wired port on the comcast modem. Ideally I would like to use wireshark to capture EVERYTHING going across the modem - basically everything that is going in and out of the connection between the modem and my firewall. I am at a loss w/r/t how to set this up properly.
>
> a step-by-step how to, or even a quick shared screen session or phone call would be appreciated.
>
> I am trying to get a sense regarding the schools' bandwidth usage.. we have 150/25 over coax. i think performance is pretty good most of the time (we are a small school).. but not everyone agrees with me. If we have too little bandwidth (are hitting a max periodically) I'd like to know that.
>
> Thanks in advance for help with this and recommendations about anything else I should put on this old PC to help with this exercise.
>
> best wishes,
>
> Joshua
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