Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Need to record bandwidth used by branch office VPN tunnels
      
      
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     On 08/08/2013 19:49, Gary Drost wrote: 
     
    
        I have a site with two branch offices.  The branch offices
          communicate back to the main office through Branch Office VPN
          tunnels over the Internet. 
          
        If the office IP structure is: 
          
          Main - 192.168.1.x 
          Br1 - 192.168.2.x 
          Br2 - 192.168.3.x 
          
        Can I use Wireshark at the main site to record the traffic
          coming to the main site from the remote sites over those VPN
          tunnels in order to determine the current bandwidth used by
          that traffic? 
          
        Can I do it without having to capture all the traffic (i.e.
          can I report on the bandwidth the traffic is using without
          having to capture that traffic)? 
          
        I would expect that I will need to capture stats for about
          a week and don't want to have to save GB worth of wireshark
          data, unless I have to, in order to accomplish this. 
          
        Thanks, 
          
        Gary 
          
          
         
       
    Gary, 
     
    Wireshark isn't the best tool for this kind of thing. See if your
    routers support Netflow - there are both commercial and open source
    products that can interpret Netflow records and provide you with
    good accounting of your traffic usage. 
     
    If you need help with this then contact me off list for a quote to
    get this set up using open source tools, or you could try rolling
    your own. 
    -- 
Regards,
Giles Coochey, CCNP, CCNA, CCNAS
NetSecSpec Ltd
+44 (0) 8444 780677
+44 (0) 7983 877438
http://www.coochey.net
http://www.netsecspec.co.uk
giles@xxxxxxxxxxx
 
  
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