Re: Traffic Analysis and Bandwidth Testing

[Ghaith Nasrawi <libero () aucegypt edu>]

i don't know how much this one is useful for your purpose, but i've just
found a script on freshmeat in the name of "bwm-ng" and it shows your
traffic usage in real-time over a network interface.

give it a try and see if it serves your aim.


On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 23:18, adisegna () siscocorp com wrote:
>       Does anyone know of a good whitepaper on the subject of software
> traffic analysis and bandwidth testing?  I have been tasked with
> checking the security/encryption of some software as it traverses the
> network and to see how much bandwidth it uses. This application enters
> information into a backend database and information is needed on the
> amount of kilobytes/megabytes used in a session. I need some guidelines
> to follow. What type of variables should be used? Idle time, connection
> length, options selected when data is sent, type of transactions, start
> to finish times, etc... I was thinking of using a protocol analyzer like
> Ethereal for the security portion. I know Ethereal will show the number
> of bytes captured, however, addition of each packet captured may be a
> little time consuming... Also I would prefer to use open source software
> for this project.
>
> Thanks 
>
> AD