Re: network statistic tool

From: opus (opusat_private)
Date: Mon Jun 02 2003 - 15:03:03 PDT

  • Next message: Marlon Jabbur: "Re: network statistic tool"

    Have you looked at IPAudit
    http://ipaudit.sourceforge.net/ipaudit-web/index.html
    is just tracks the traffic, doesn't keep any packets, just the record of 
    it's existance and protocol, source destination and a little more info.
    
    Opus
    
    On 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
    > 
    > 
    
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