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| Thread ID: 97743 | 2009-02-26 03:15:00 | Network use monitor? | GorCh (13021) | Press F1 |
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| 751468 | 2009-02-27 07:55:00 | Yeah, even I have never managed to get a linux firewall doin that stuff, I dunno if its just me but I find iptables scary :p BWMeter kinda worked, until everybody began shutting it down :( |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 751469 | 2009-02-27 10:36:00 | I've never tried it either, though I installed Smoothwall once to see what it was like. Something like http://www.untangle.com/ might be quite good |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 751470 | 2009-02-27 19:22:00 | I've never tried it either, though I installed Smoothwall once to see what it was like. Something like http://www.untangle.com/ might be quite good I've had a play with that a while ago -it's powerful, but incredibly memory hungry. I'd say it's more suited to schools and small-medium sized businesses. WebGauge on the other hand doesn't have as many features, but does the core things well - which for me is exactly what I want. |
somebody (208) | ||
| 751471 | 2009-02-27 21:32:00 | But did you install untangle with all options enabled? According to the website you can enable and disable all features as needed | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 751472 | 2009-02-27 23:05:00 | But did you install untangle with all options enabled? According to the website you can enable and disable all features as needed I still thing you're missing the point. Untangle is great, but it's too heavy and complicated for a household or a flat. It definitely requires a dedicated server to act as the router/gateway, and is complete overkill for this situation. Even with just a few options enabled, it still consumes a lot of resources - and certainly won't run on something the size of a wireless router. Furthermore, it requires expertise and know-how to set up; building something up from a Linux box is even more difficult, time consuming, and outside the reach of the majority of people. If you know how to do it - that's great, but don't assume that everyone else does. The original poster just wanted something simple to keep track of how much internet each person was using. I wanted something simple, but which does the job. WebGauge was the perfect fit, and at a very affordable price. |
somebody (208) | ||
| 751473 | 2009-02-27 23:54:00 | No, I'm not suggesting the OP use it, I was just offering it as an idea. Besides, I was commenting on your own experience - you said it was "incredibly memory hungry" - at a guess I figured you might have had every feature it offered running at once... Just wanted to know if that was the case |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 751474 | 2009-02-28 00:07:00 | No, I'm not suggesting the OP use it, I was just offering it as an idea. Besides, I was commenting on your own experience - you said it was "incredibly memory hungry" - at a guess I figured you might have had every feature it offered running at once... Just wanted to know if that was the case Since it has been quite a while since I actually played with it, I don't recall exactly what features I had enabled - it may very well have been all of the modules. The main problem seems to be that a lot of it is Java based, and thus is quite resource intensive. Their hardware compatiblity list here: wiki.untangle.com suggests 512MB of RAM as an *absolute* minimum. Of course, in the time since I used it, and their current version, they could very well have made some performance improvements - but judging by their hardware requirements (relative to the likes of Smoothwall, PFSense, IPCop etc) it looks like it's still quite resource intensive. |
somebody (208) | ||
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