RE: network statistic tool

From: winter (shonky_secat_private)
Date: Mon Jun 02 2003 - 13:42:36 PDT

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    Hi,
    
    Sniffer Pro (nai) has some good protocol distrubition reports. May be a bit
    heavy for what you want through.
    
    winter
    
    -----Original Message-----
    From: Soeren Ziehe [mailto:robintonat_private] 
    Sent: Tuesday, 3 June 2003 4:17 AM
    To: PEN-TESTat_private
    Subject: network statistic tool
    
    
    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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