| Internet can be a benefit to your business when | | | | Setting up a mirror port does no change to your |
| used properly, but internet is often abused by | | | | network topology, and it will not affect your |
| employees and poses significant liability and | | | | network speed. A broadcasted hub can also help |
| security risks. In today's internet, P2P programs | | | | you to do monitoring, however, broadcasted hubs |
| and IPTV applications can easily consume most of | | | | can only work in 10M bit mode, and it is not so |
| your bandwidth. | | | | stable. Therefore I recommend you not to use a |
| Therefore, tracking of internet usage and | | | | broadcasted hub to do monitoring. |
| monitoring of bandwidth usage is important to | | | | Read this example for details to setup port |
| keep your business efficient. | | | | mirroring: Deploy internet monitoring using a port |
| This tutorial will guide you to track internet usage | | | | mirror switch . |
| on company network. | | | | How to track internet connections? |
| How to track internet usage? | | | | Once you've setup the span port, you can easily |
| You can not track other computers internet | | | | track internet connections using internet monitor |
| usage in a network unless you have access to | | | | products. |
| their network traffic. | | | | Let's take "WFilter Enterprise" as an example: |
| There have two ways to see other computers | | | | Track all computers internet connections |
| internet traffic: | | | | Use WFilter's "Active Connections" feature, you |
| 1. Configure a span port(port mirroring) in your | | | | can have a clear view of all connections in your |
| switch. | | | | network. |
| 2. Do monitoring in the gateway or proxy. | | | | |
| If you already setup a computer as the gateway | | | | Track a computer's internet connections |
| or proxy server, you just need to install internet | | | | Connections of a particular computer, you can kill |
| monitoring software in the server to track all | | | | established connections if you want. |
| computers internet usage. | | | | |
| Since many networks are using a router as the | | | | How to track other computers internet activity? |
| gateway, using a port mirroring switch is a good | | | | In "Online computers", click the numbers under |
| choice. Port mirroring allows you to setup a port in | | | | each title to view detailed internet usage records. |
| the switch to receive packets of other ports. | | | | |