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Re: network statistic tool


From: Marlon Jabbur <msjabbur () uol com br>
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 18:09:29 -0300

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

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