Stephanie
You seem confident that I should be able to make this work which is good
to hear! Not to mention getting the award for the fastest response to a
post ever!
Getting tethereal to generate some statistics sounds pretty good. The
immediate problem for me is this:
This ISP currently host about 5 sites, all the sites are hosted on one
server. By the time the request makes it's way to the server it is by
IP, and the server knows which site to serve up based on the HTTP
header. This means that there is know high level way of knowing which
site is being hit, ie which customer should be billed..
Does that make sense? And can you see the problem? Is there some way
of showing which site is being hit which I don't know about?
Thanks again,
Lewis
Stephanie Tan wrote:
Thought I'd pop in my two cents for the first time on this newsgroup:
For us, we have a dedicated computer running Ethereal on a bridge. We
scheduled tethereal to run in certain intervals. That tcpdump file is
saved
and then we use tethereal to read the tcpdump file and write it to a
file in
some human-readable format. We actually put that data onto a database
because we have to analyze the data (certainly a lot of data so we
truncate
old data). Additionally, we use tethereal to genereate some
statistics on
the data and push that out to another database. Oh and we do this
with Perl
scripts that are scheduled with the "at" command.
For you, it sounds like you need tethereal to genereate some basic
statistics like #packets total. Wasn't sure how much detail you were
wanting...like the actual command or something...
Anyhow, gl
Sincerely,
Stephanie Tan
----- Original Message ----- From: "Lewis Smith" <lewis@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2004 11:51
Subject: [Ethereal-users] Bandwidth Usage Monitoring
I am doing some work for a would-be ISP/web host, and they have asked
me to setup a way of monitoring how much bandwidth each of their
customers (who each have their own domain) use on each of the
services they provide, ie web hosting, email and FTP.
Said company had spoken to their ISP who suggested they use ethereal.
I downloaded and installed ethereal without any trouble, and set it
up to monitor traffic. This was very straight forward, and it is
easy to see that ethereal is very powerful and practical utility.
However, I cannot see any easy way of bringing back the required
information. Can you give any advice on the best way to go about
getting this right?
Many thanks
Lewis
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