Bandwidth Monitor

Description

A packet sniffer that uses a producer/consumer multithreaded model to capture data about the bandwidth used by a device and compiles reports that are sent to the system administrator on a weekly basis.

Setup

libpcap requires the following additional packages to be installed:

• flex
• bison

These packages can be installed using the following commands:

sudo apt install flex
sudo apt install bison

Then please make sure to pull the submodules using the following command:

git submodule update --init --recursive

Build

To build the program, create a build directory and navigate into it. Then run:

cmake ..
make

Execution

The program can now be run using:

sudo ./Bandwidth_Monitor 

To run it as a background process use:

sudo ./Bandwidth_Monitor &

Sample Output

Coming soon