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Why WFilter can only monitor itself? How to monitor other computers in network?
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#1 Posted : Wednesday, September 09, 2009 8:19:34 PM(UTC)
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If you can only monitor yourself. It means WFilter can not see other computers internet traffic.

You can not monitor other computers internet usage in a network unless you have access to their network traffic.
There have two ways to see other computers internet traffic:

1. Configure a span port(port mirroring) in your switch. How to check whether a switch supports port mirroring?
2. Do monitoring in the gateway or proxy.

If you already setup a computer as the gateway or proxy server, you just need to install WFilter in the server to do monitoring.
Since many networks are using a router as the gateway, using a port mirroring switch is a good choice. Port mirroring allows you to setup a port in the switch to receive packets of other ports. Setting up a mirror port does no change to your network topology, and it will not affect your network speed. A broadcasted hub can also help you to do monitoring, however, broadcasted hubs can only work in 10M bit mode, and it is not so stable. Therefore I recommend you not to use a broadcasted hub to do monitoring.

Check out WFilter deployment examples with several port mirroring switches:

WFilter deployment examples.
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#2 Posted : Wednesday, September 09, 2009 8:23:40 PM(UTC)
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If you're not sure about whether your switch supports port mirroring. Tell me your switch brand and model.
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#3 Posted : Wednesday, November 17, 2010 7:21:04 PM(UTC)
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Read this blog topic for more details: How to monitor internet usage without a manageable switch?
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#4 Posted : Sunday, December 05, 2010 1:16:29 PM(UTC)
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