Re: network statistic tool

From: Sam Evans (sam@neuroflux.com)
Date: Mon Jun 02 2003 - 15:50:55 EDT


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
>
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