Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Protocol Analysis and Graphing

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From: Stef <stefmit@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 22:36:55 -0500
OOPS - second was supposed to be nprobe, from the same ntop main page
(http://www.ntop.org/nProbe.html) ... sorry ...

On 10/25/05, Stef <stefmit@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> http://www.ntop.org/ntop.html
> and/or
> netflow tools (in conjunction with http://www.ntop.org/ntop.html if
> you do not have flow capable devices)
>
> HTH,
> Stef
>
> On 10/25/05, Chris Miller <cmiller@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > I am looking for an application to run on a Linux/BSD box that will listen
> > passively to network traffic and collect statistics about the type of
> > traffic being passed. I have a distribution router for a few hundred users,
> > and a backbone router. The two are connected via Ethernet. I am going to
> > connect them to a switch and mirror all traffic to one of the ports to
> > another port for analysis. The load is well under 100Mbps (actually more
> > like 3-4Mbps).
> >
> >
> >
> > I want to collect data about the type of traffic so that I can put in place
> > filters to rate limit some of the traffic we deem as "lower priority" (i.e.
> > – p2p, file sharing, etc.). I would like to be able to generate graphs and
> > reports on the types of traffic being passed over the network.
> >
> >
> >
> > I would prefer this box be passive on the network and only collect data
> > rather than have traffic route through it, that way if the box fails the
> > network is unaffected. However, I am willing to place the box as a router
> > simply routing data between the "distribution" and "backbone" routers.
> >
> >
> >
> > Is this something Ethereal (perhaps with some modifications) can do? Is this
> > something I can just run tcpdump and log the data to a file for analysis at
> > a later time with some package? If so, what? I really don't know where to
> > start… thanks for input!
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
> >
> > Chris Miller
> >
> > 6PS Corporation
> >
> > www.6ps.com
> >
> >
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