Re: network statistic tool

From: Matthew Leeds (mleeds@theleeds.net)
Date: Mon Jun 02 2003 - 16:41:18 EDT


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 robinton@alahele.de 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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