Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 00:19:03 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser <joe@FreeBSD.org> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Traffic analysis ports? Message-ID: <20030918231903.GC41432@genius.tao.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030918141239.1604C-100000@fledge.watson.org> References: <20030918123203.GC13474@genius.tao.org.uk> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030918141239.1604C-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 02:14:23PM -0400, Robert Watson wrote: > > On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Josef Karthauser wrote: > > > I'm looking for some software to basically analyse the traffic I've got > > going over a particular pipe so that I can work out whether or what to > > traffic shape. Can anyone recommend anything? > > I tend to cut my own BPF-based tools as needed to measure particular types > of traffic, but that's not a very scalable approach. There are commercial > products, such as NAI's Sniffer tool (I think it can read playback from > pcap output), which claim to be able to help with that sort of analysis, > but I've never really used them. For a "first cut" visualization of > currently active network connections, tools such as ntop, trafshow, > tcpstat, etc, can actually provide surprising amounts of insight. > Ahha, ntop. That looks like just the kind of thing I was looking for. Thanks :). Joe -- Josef Karthauser (joe@tao.org.uk) http://www.josef-k.net/ FreeBSD (cvs meister, admin and hacker) http://www.uk.FreeBSD.org/ Physics Particle Theory (student) http://www.pact.cpes.sussex.ac.uk/ ================ An eclectic mix of fact and theory. ================= [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAj9qPWYACgkQXVIcjOaxUBYOoQCg1ie8KUUEvHNfKIbsBxs5Gm5u hrQAoKfEYW8DD8jwOm6FrPBFEF5XLZhH =9C5M -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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