You might take a look at 'ntop' from www.ntop.org -- It's an excellent network overview tool that would provide exactly what you are looking for. Plus, it's free. :) On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Soeren Ziehe wrote: > Hello, > > this is not strictly for pentesting. However the people on this ML > should know an answer, I'd guess. > > We're experiencing severe network disruptions of varying duration and at > varying times. Mechanical or electric failures in the network have been > ruled out as far as possible. > > We would like to have a "look" at the traffic on the network. > However we do /not/ want to look at each and every packet. We're > interested in the distribution of protocols and distribution of traffic. > > Therefore the usual tools like Ethereal, tcpdump, Etherpeek et al. are > not meeting our needs. > > Does anyone know a tool which samples the traffic and presents summary > statistics on network traffic? > > Seeing a high percentage of "file sharing" would not really surprise us. > But how to get an overview without being lost in the surge of packets > such traffic causes? > > I know of Etherload, which is a DOS tool, that provided said services. > A modern successor should be the tool we're hunting for. > > Robinton > > -- > I've asked for kindness and ultimate truth. Still waiting for the answer. > -- > Sich zu Tode zu arbeiten ist die einzige gesellschaftlichanerkannte Form > des Selbstmordes. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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