Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Bandwidth Usage Monitoring

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From: Tony Lee <tony.p.lee@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 07:36:43 -0800
On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 16:51:53 +0000, Lewis Smith <lewis@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
> 

Lewis, 
I think ntop meet your requirments better.

http://www.ntop.org/ntop.html



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-Tony
Having fun with FPGA HW + ppc + Linux