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How to monitor who's accessing a website

Hello everyone,

I need to know how or what is the best way to know who is accessing a specific website on my network.

At work we have one student or maybve more who is downloading huge files, probably videos, every day and I need to know how to locate the computer that he's using to do so.

I know the website from where he's downloading big files (megaupload.com), now I need to know how to trace the computer.

I know the website because at megaupload we get a message that says:
"Your IP address 198.168.x.x is currently downloading a 176198314 byte RMVB file."
But how can we know from wich Internal IP that request is comming from?

I tough of the use of Ethereal/WireShark but even so how to do it.

Thanks...
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Kind of a scattered question.....You mention getting a message, from where? And if that message is already identifying the LAN side IP address of the culprit, your work is pretty much done. Open a command prompt and do a NSLOOKUP for 192.168.x.x. This will spit out the host name of the computer. (ie. WORKSTATION15.UNIVERSITY.LOCAL)

Start > Run > Type COMMAND > NSLOOKUP 192.168.x.x


(Unless "it" is ACTUALLY showing 'x.x' and not the two last numbers in the set??)
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That IP address is the IP assign to us from our ISP. All machines on the network have an IP address on the 10.10.0.0 range so any computer connecting to the outside word will have the same Gateway.

So that IP is just telling me that someone on this network is accessing the website. Now I need to find the internal address that is actually downloading the big file.

I hope this clarify it.
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I will have to test all the programs you guys comment.