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Newbie problem - How to track Bandwidth hog?
Posted by jfalken@socket.net on May 31st, 2006


We have a small office with 30 PCs and they are connected to us via
half of a T1 with Cisco2621's on either side. As of about 9:30 this
morning the have been getting bumped from the two programs they access
from here. We aren't having the problem. It comes and goes, and
moements after they lose connection, it comes back. It is almost like
something is sucking down the bandwidth. Is there an easy way in the
2621 to see what IP address is pulling traffic at a given moment? I
seem to remember there was an easy way to look at this, but can't
remember it for the life of me or if it was a different router at my
old place.

Posted by Kevin Widner on May 31st, 2006



jfalken@socket.net wrote:

This could help...

Router(config)# ip cef
Router(config)# interface ser 0/1
Router(config-if)# ip route-cache flow

Router# show ip cache flow


And better yet, if your version of software supports it...

Turn on netflow as above and...
Router(config)# ip flow-top-talkers
Router(config-flow-top-talkers)# top 10

The following is the top ten talkers in network sorted by packets:
Router# show ip flow top-talkers

You should expect increased CPU overhead to provide these
statistics.....