Monthly Archive for December, 2009

Public Wave: Monitoring your Church’s internet usage internally

Published on December 17, 2009 in Techie and Waves. 0 Comments

Trying out another public wave. This one is on Monitoring the internet access of the church network.

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Monitoring your Church’s internet usage internally

Currently I am mirroring the outbound port of the last switch on our network and sending all of that data to a machine with two NICs. One simply gulps on the network firehose and the other allows me to RDP in.

I monitor the traffic with WireShark using the statistic options with IPv4 conversations, I/O, and HTTP requests.

There has got to be a better way to have ongoing monitoring on a tight budget.

Any questions or suggestions?

Trying a public Google Wave

Published on December 10, 2009 in Techie and Waves. 0 Comments

I am trying out the Public Wave option using public@a.gwave.com with this post, but you will still need a Google Wave Account to join in.

This is a wave asking questions about Open-Mesh.

I am using the Wavr Plugin for Wordpress to embed the wave, but you can go directly to it here: The Open-Mesh Wave.

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