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Date:      Thu, 30 Nov 2000 12:16:36 +1100 (EST)
From:      Rowan Crowe <rowan@sensation.net.au>
To:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: tcpdump & user-ppp/tunX. Ethereal ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011301206020.55961-100000@velvet.sensation.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011301147050.338-100000@stan.aipo.gov.au>

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On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Stanley Hopcroft wrote:

> 
> Dear Sir,
> 
> I am writing to say that ethereal (http://www.zing.org aka
> http://www.ethereal.com/) is a very nice seven layer packet decoder
> that may be suitable if you need nasty link layer stuff.
> 
> There is a FreeBSD port of it, and while for my moneys worth, tcpdump
> with ASCII decode patches (he he), is by far and way more convenient
> than a relatively sluggish X application, Ethereal decodes almost every
> protocol and his dog.

Thanks Stanley,

I don't run X on any of my machines (especially the little 486dx2-66 I
want to track traffic on!) so it's not really an option...

Some time ago I wrote a program which accepted the output from tcpdump and
generated 4 lists ordered by:

source port
destination port
source IP
destination IP

In this way it was very easy to be able to see where content was coming
from, how much HTTP or SMTP traffic was coming in, which customer is
receiving the most traffic, etc. I've included a sample output below.

This program makes use of the apparent -e "packet size" parameter which I
later discovered is not guaranteed; it works fine on 2.2.8 systems but of
course breaks on later versions of tcpdump which output things a little
differently. Another limitation is that it only handles UDP and TCP
packets, and quietly ignores anything else.

I want to adapt this program to a 3.x system. Perhaps it's time to hack
tcpdump. :-)

Thanks for the suggestion.


288364 packets processed; 112,318,133 bytes total; 13,087 unique connections.

*** Sorted by source IP address ***
Total unique entries: 2746
First 40 entries:
      18,730Kb   17%  205.188.137.185
      11,043Kb   10%  203.36.1.129
       5,493Kb    5%  203.1.20.10
       4,073Kb    3%  139.134.5.197
       3,018Kb    2%  64.41.227.225
       2,594Kb    2%  203.20.114.7
       2,580Kb    2%  203.36.1.147
       2,576Kb    2%  64.29.207.228
       1,961Kb    1%  211.45.27.151
       1,854Kb    1%  212.227.109.212
       1,778Kb    1%  63.209.83.91
       1,576Kb    1%  216.34.24.207
       1,100Kb    1%  128.32.18.166
       1,071Kb    0%  64.4.8.250
       1,054Kb    0%  203.2.192.84
       1,049Kb    0%  128.177.243.61
         848Kb    0%  216.65.106.242
         751Kb    0%  216.240.130.101
         591Kb    0%  192.68.228.132
         586Kb    0%  151.196.93.7
         552Kb    0%  209.132.192.13
         551Kb    0%  209.117.195.200
         508Kb    0%  209.50.252.43
         499Kb    0%  209.25.129.115
         494Kb    0%  24.0.0.200
         492Kb    0%  209.185.128.158
         489Kb    0%  208.48.218.205
         481Kb    0%  209.198.49.161
         479Kb    0%  207.246.159.76
         456Kb    0%  216.223.198.226
         452Kb    0%  209.207.146.160
         445Kb    0%  204.85.35.52
         439Kb    0%  207.230.127.4
         413Kb    0%  202.2.59.40
         408Kb    0%  207.192.97.52
         406Kb    0%  216.247.86.46
         396Kb    0%  203.20.114.4
         390Kb    0%  204.71.200.180
         383Kb    0%  216.74.73.62
         368Kb    0%  130.80.29.3
         352Kb    0%  209.226.29.11

*** Sorted by destination IP address ***
Total unique entries: 580
First 40 entries:
      36,547Kb   33%  203.55.253.20
      16,209Kb   14%  203.20.114.7
      12,443Kb   11%  203.25.86.4
      11,043Kb   10%  203.20.114.4
       9,982Kb    9%  216.226.215.2
       3,963Kb    3%  203.20.114.91
       2,406Kb    2%  203.55.253.17
       2,149Kb    1%  203.36.1.147
       2,102Kb    1%  203.20.114.105
       1,816Kb    1%  203.25.86.210
       1,646Kb    1%  203.25.86.55
       1,450Kb    1%  216.226.215.1
         954Kb    0%  203.25.86.106
         837Kb    0%  203.25.86.100
         749Kb    0%  203.20.114.92
         599Kb    0%  203.20.114.241
         528Kb    0%  203.20.114.242
         462Kb    0%  203.20.114.148
         445Kb    0%  216.226.193.195
         413Kb    0%  203.25.86.105
         396Kb    0%  203.36.1.129
         387Kb    0%  203.20.114.90
         262Kb    0%  203.44.3.130
         262Kb    0%  203.44.3.129
         172Kb    0%  203.20.114.24
         158Kb    0%  203.20.114.214
         146Kb    0%  203.20.114.3
         138Kb    0%  203.55.253.16
         128Kb    0%  203.20.114.253
         127Kb    0%  203.20.114.89
          91Kb    0%  203.20.114.109
          77Kb    0%  203.20.114.1
          67Kb    0%  203.20.114.81
          65Kb    0%  203.20.114.19
          51Kb    0%  203.20.114.195
          18Kb    0%  203.25.86.213
          12Kb    0%  203.25.86.101
          11Kb    0%  203.20.114.23
           8Kb    0%  64.38.223.44
           5Kb    0%  203.25.86.107
           4Kb    0%  203.25.86.108

*** Sorted by source TCP/UDP port ***
Total unique entries: 2579
First 40 entries:
      70,927Kb   64%      80
      11,042Kb   10%     119
       5,493Kb    5%    2359
       4,073Kb    3%    4896
       3,885Kb    3%    3130
       2,702Kb    2%      53
       1,056Kb    0%    8080
       1,055Kb    0%   62626
         543Kb    0%     443
         505Kb    0%    1863
         446Kb    0%    1044
         444Kb    0%    1278
         262Kb    0%   14591
         262Kb    0%     179
         231Kb    0%     137
         225Kb    0%    6666
         224Kb    0%    1063
         224Kb    0%    1065
         194Kb    0%    1068
         157Kb    0%    6667
         152Kb    0%    1609
         124Kb    0%   63390
         120Kb    0%    1064
         108Kb    0%    2587
         106Kb    0%    3674
          97Kb    0%   47819
          66Kb    0%   64661
          52Kb    0%    3924
          51Kb    0%    3874
          46Kb    0%    3601
          46Kb    0%    3682
          45Kb    0%    3647
          42Kb    0%    4000
          40Kb    0%    1024
          40Kb    0%    1033
          40Kb    0%    1835
          39Kb    0%    1031
          39Kb    0%    1817
          38Kb    0%    3838
          38Kb    0%    3771
          37Kb    0%    1030

*** Sorted by destination TCP/UDP port ***
Total unique entries: 3581
First 40 entries:
      11,826Kb   10%      25
       6,795Kb    6%    3147
       6,106Kb    5%    3324
       5,640Kb    5%    4299
       3,893Kb    3%    3130
       3,362Kb    3%      53
       3,001Kb    2%    1969
       2,576Kb    2%    4667
       2,405Kb    2%      80
       1,855Kb    1%    2270
       1,292Kb    1%    3682
       1,278Kb    1%    1835
       1,276Kb    1%    3924
       1,266Kb    1%    1817
       1,254Kb    1%    3647
       1,241Kb    1%    3874
       1,226Kb    1%    3771
       1,144Kb    1%    3838
         842Kb    0%    2477
         655Kb    0%    1039
         649Kb    0%    1121
         585Kb    0%    2189
         522Kb    0%    2002
         508Kb    0%    1087
         421Kb    0%    4999
         399Kb    0%    4003
         395Kb    0%     119
         390Kb    0%    4406
         363Kb    0%    1947
         362Kb    0%    1997
         347Kb    0%    2135
         312Kb    0%    8080
         278Kb    0%    1833
         262Kb    0%     179
         262Kb    0%   14591
         255Kb    0%    1352
         254Kb    0%    3668
         250Kb    0%    1025
         249Kb    0%    3908
         246Kb    0%    3818
         231Kb    0%     137

Cheers.


--
Rowan Crowe                              http://www.rowan.sensation.net.au/
Sensation Internet Services                   http://info.sensation.net.au/
Melbourne, Australia                                 Phone: +61-3-9388-9260



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