Penetration Testing: Re: network statistic tool

[opus <opus () ircore com>]

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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