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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