Re: network statistic tool

From: Matthew Leeds (mleedsat_private)
Date: Mon Jun 02 2003 - 13:41:18 PDT

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    Have you looked at NetCelera Scout? www.netcelera.com  It's a free tool they provide in support of a hardware appliance they sell, but I think it might do what you want.
    
    ---Matthew
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    On 6/2/2003 at 8:17 PM robintonat_private 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
    >
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