From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 25 16: 4:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from p6m7g82k.student.umd.edu (p6m7g82k.student.umd.edu [129.2.228.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E12337B718 for ; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 16:04:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from philip@p6m7g8.com) Received: from localhost (philip@localhost) by p6m7g82k.student.umd.edu (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f2PJ1oN37476; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 19:01:50 GMT (envelope-from philip@p6m7g8.com) X-Authentication-Warning: p6m7g82k.student.umd.edu: philip owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 19:01:50 +0000 (GMT) From: "Philip M. Gollucci" X-Sender: philip@p6m7g82k.student.umd.edu To: bsd-freak@mbox.com.au Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IP Traffic monitoring In-Reply-To: <99e41399a2b3.99a2b399e413@mbox.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Try /usr/ports/net/ntop it generates a top like output. It is console based, and runs in promiscuous mode. I believe it does _exactly_ what you are looking for. ***************************************************************************** Philip M. Gollucci (p6m7g8) Web-site : http://www.p6m7g8.com E-mail : gollucci@wam.umd.edu Philip@p6m7g8.com Phone : 301.249.6261 (Home) 301.314.3118 (College) Major : Computer Science Minor : Classical & Jazz Performance Current Job : Science, Discovery, & the Universe Webmaster URL: http://www.sdu.umd.edu Resume : http://www.wam.umd.edu/~gollucci/resume.html ***************************************************************************** Windows 98: useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 bsd-freak@mbox.com.au wrote: > Hiya all, > > I'm after a utility (preferably console based, but an X app will do if > it does the job) to monitor the amount of traffic received by hosts on > my network segment. It would be good if it could also generate useful > statistics such as "top ten hosts visited" (by traffic and by > connection). I can do this with http/ftp traffic by analysing proxy > server access logs but I need to do this for other types of traffic. I > imagine such a utility would in promiscuous mode on a network segment. I > have tried iptraf but was not that impressed with it, a bit too simple > for my liking. I don't use a sniffer as I don't need the actual packets, > I just need to know how much traffic is going and where. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated.... :-) > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message