Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] Trying to aviod using Windows..

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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 22:22:46 -0500 (CDT)
On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Derrick MacPherson wrote:

> I have been asked by my boss to provide a solution to monitor and report
> bandwidth use in our network.. He is wanting to use Etherpeak, which is a great
> product, but I would prefer to go with something that runs under Unix,
> preferably Linux. I don't need to be able to disect packets (but that is not a
> bad thing), I just need to monitor 3 class C's, and about 6 VLANs, and report
> monthly bandwidth usage by protocols, VLANS, and Class C's... I am looking for
> some suggestions in the next day or two would be great, I really don't want to
> have to do this in Windows... Thanks you guys..

You might want to check out ntop at http://www.ntop.org .  BTW, are you
trying to monitor a switched or a shared network?