Re: network statistic tool

From: Marlon Jabbur (msjabbur@uol.com.br)
Date: Mon Jun 02 2003 - 17:09:29 EDT


You can integrate Ntop with rrdtool. This will give you graphics that
looks like MRTG.

Marlon
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 03:50:55PM -0400, Sam Evans wrote:
> 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
> >
> > --
> > I've asked for kindness and ultimate truth. Still waiting for the answer.
> > --
> > Sich zu Tode zu arbeiten ist die einzige gesellschaftlichanerkannte Form
> > des Selbstmordes.
> >
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