Is there a simple (cheap) way to view per VLAN internet traffic?

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AMorrison
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Is there a simple (cheap) way to view per VLAN internet traffic?

Does anyone know of a simple solution that shows how much internet bandwidth an IP subnet or VLAN is using?

 

When we look at Network Wide/Clients/Only security appliance clients and put in a subnet, the graph scaling is so bad you can't see how much bandwidth is being used by the subnet. Hopefully, this screenshot shows the "issue" - it gets worse the more overall bandwidth is shown as the scale goes up to 1gb/sec: It is the yellow part of the graph I need a more accurate reading of.

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PhilipDAth
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If you to do this ongoing, you would week to use netflow like @ww mentions.

 

If this is short term, and you are trying to do a one-off diagnosis - capture 5 minutes of traffic and put it into Wireshark and use its statistics function to break the traffic down.

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alemabrahao
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Have you tried a filter like this?

 

 

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AMorrison
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Thanks, but that doesn't change the graph scale, which is the issue for me. 

alemabrahao
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So, open a support case.

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ww
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You could look at using netflow to a cheap/free netflow tool

PhilipDAth
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If you to do this ongoing, you would week to use netflow like @ww mentions.

 

If this is short term, and you are trying to do a one-off diagnosis - capture 5 minutes of traffic and put it into Wireshark and use its statistics function to break the traffic down.

AMorrison
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Yes, it is for long term viewing as in days and weeks. Netflow is cool, but very expensive as we have multiple sites/firewalls. Thanks though.

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