DG384G bandwidth monitor?

Please note that I need an _instantaneous bandwidth_ monitor and not a
"number of bytes sent this month" usage monitor.

Anyone know a way to monitor the bandwidth usage of a DG384G? It doesn't
need to be in real time, that is I'm happy to read the figures off-line
later but I do want to see what bandwidth a video VoIP call consumes from my
ADSL line.

Thanks,
Paul DS.
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"Paul D.Smith" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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> Please note that I need an _instantaneous bandwidth_ monitor and not a
> "number of bytes sent this month" usage monitor.
>
> Anyone know a way to monitor the bandwidth usage of a DG384G? It
> doesn't need to be in real time, that is I'm happy to read the figures
> off-line later but I do want to see what bandwidth a video VoIP call
> consumes from my ADSL line.

I believe the DG834G supports SNMP so you could use something like PRTG:
http://www.paessler.com/prtg

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Phil wrote:
> "Paul D.Smith" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
> news:42cb8b1a$0$6483$(E-Mail Removed) et:
>
>
>>Please note that I need an _instantaneous bandwidth_ monitor and not a
>>"number of bytes sent this month" usage monitor.
>>
>>Anyone know a way to monitor the bandwidth usage of a DG384G? It
>>doesn't need to be in real time, that is I'm happy to read the figures
>>off-line later but I do want to see what bandwidth a video VoIP call
>>consumes from my ADSL line.
>
>
> I believe the DG834G supports SNMP so you could use something like PRTG:
> http://www.paessler.com/prtg
>

STG does realtime monitoring, it does depend on SNMP
http://leonidvm.chat.ru/

Ian

Thanks for the links. I'll take a look.

Paul DS.

Phil <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
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: I believe the DG834G supports SNMP so you could use something like PRTG:
: http://www.paessler.com/prtg

No it does not! But Netgear have been working a lot on its software
recently (to add VPN) so people live in hope that they might also add
SNMP sometime!

Theer is a router status screen of current traffic and, as it is a Linux
based router, there is a debug mode (see Google) which can enable incoming
telnet into the router - when Linux commands like "ifconfig" will also show
traffic.

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> "Paul D.Smith" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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>
>> Please note that I need an _instantaneous bandwidth_ monitor and not a
>> "number of bytes sent this month" usage monitor.
>>
>> Anyone know a way to monitor the bandwidth usage of a DG384G? It
>> doesn't need to be in real time, that is I'm happy to read the figures
>> off-line later but I do want to see what bandwidth a video VoIP call
>> consumes from my ADSL line.
>
> I believe the DG834G supports SNMP

I believe you are WRONG. If anyone cares to say otherwise, please speak up.
Tony

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> I believe you are WRONG. If anyone cares to say otherwise, please
> speak up. Tony

Okay, I stand corrected. The one document I looked at in Google suggested
it did.

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Phil regurgitated eggs and wrote in news:Xns968B77088660Fpelhamnet@127.0.0.1:

> Okay, I stand corrected. The one document I looked at in Google suggested
> it did.

It does, try this link:-

http://192.168.0.1/setup.cgi?next_file=snmp.htm

I don't use it so I'm not sure how useful it is.

HTH

Sie

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On 06 Jul 2005, Sie uttered the following:

> It does, try this link:-
>
> http://192.168.0.1/setup.cgi?next_file=snmp.htm
>
> I don't use it so I'm not sure how useful it is.

Ah, thanks for that. Will have to play with it later. PRTG can't detect
any MIBs on the router at the moment. Don't have time to investigate
further at the momemnt.

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Sie wrote:
> It does, try this link:-
>
> http://192.168.0.1/setup.cgi?next_file=snmp.htm
>
> I don't use it so I'm not sure how useful it is.
>
> HTH
>
> Sie
>


It's about as useful as a chocolate teapout. Enable SNMP, set the
community strings and you'll find that it doesn't work.

The iptables firewall in the router is blocking connections from the LAN
interface to 161/udp. If you enable debug mode then telnet to the
router you can alter the config (I think you have to delete the first
rule, but it is ages since I've done it so I could well be wrong) to
allow SNMP to work but the firewall reloads at midnight every day so you
then lose the changes you made.

~P.