You might want to take a look a ntop http://www.ntop.org/ which
appears more appropriate than ethereal for what you need.
On 10/7/05, Niklas Abrahamsson (KI/EAB) <niklas.abrahamsson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm just about to start a schoolproject about the general usage of network traffic. The basis for the project is to gather data probably by using tcpdump and then to analyze it somehow. This is not something I have done before and should be very educational. I've been looking around for different tools and ethereal cought my eye. So now I only have to find out if it will do the things I need it to do or if there are better solutions.
>
> What Im looking to do is to be able to get statistics on daily and weekly usage of the network, for up and downlink distrubution of protocols and port usage etc.
>
> >From what I've been able to read from the first pages of the ethereal homepage this should be able to be done by the different filters availible.
>
> What I haven't been able to understand is if it is possible to do some kind of batch processing of the large tcpdumpfiles I will get (probably around 200mb files). Is this possible?
>
> Any input would be helpful.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nick
>
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