From owner-freebsd-net Tue Nov 10 13:49:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA21199 for freebsd-net-outgoing; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:49:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hp9000.chc-chimes.com (hp9000.chc-chimes.com [206.67.97.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA21182; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:49:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from billf@chc-chimes.com) Received: from localhost by hp9000.chc-chimes.com with SMTP (1.39.111.2/16.2) id AA249144474; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 16:47:54 -0500 Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 16:47:53 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Fumerola To: andreas@FreeBSD.ORG, andreas.klemm.ak@bayer-ag.de Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: network monitor/visu tool that displays traffic between nodes ? In-Reply-To: <19981110214929.A15251@klemm.gtn.com> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Andreas Klemm wrote: > I'm looking for a network monitor that displays traffic between > several nodes to easily see the "top 10" of speakers in a network /usr/ports/net/ntop > I remember a network analyzer, but source code wasn't available > and the binaries were only available for some platforms. > > Nodes were drawn around a circle and the traffic between nodes > was shown by a line between the nodes and traffic was shown by > thickness of line. NetXray has this functionality and runs in Windows NT (and is rather expensive might I add). > If there isn't a network monitor, that does this kind of visualisation, > is there a tool, that could show this traffic relationship between > nodes based on collected statistics in an ASCII file ??? ntop may be able to dump, not sure. also the commercial product lanstat which is on the freebsd.org webserver somewhere under 'commercial products' does similar (but more in depth) things like ntop. All 3 are good at what they do, and I use all 3 of them fairly regularly. - bill fumerola - billf@chc-chimes.com - BF1560 - computer horizons corp - - ph:(800) 252-2421 - bfumerol@computerhorizons.com - billf@FreeBSD.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message