Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 08:55:54 -0500 (CDT) From: Brennan W Stehling <brennan@offwhite.net> To: freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org Subject: Re: watching traffic Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10004170853350.25196-100000@home.offwhite.net> In-Reply-To: <38FB14D9.CA3CEE51@origenbio.com>
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Yes, I have used tcpdump briefly in the past, but it gives me too much data for me to understand. I guess I will have to find a way to make sense of all the data. I am thinking ntop may give me just the data that I need. I will also read more about tcpdump and try to limit the amount of data that it gives me. I always wanted to reverse engineer a few protocols. Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin projects: www.greasydaemon.com | www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com fortune: Living in LA is like not having a date on Saturday night. -- Candice Bergen On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Richard Martin wrote: > Brennan, > > It depends on how much you want to know. > > At the bottom end of the scale is 'ntop' a program that looks at network > traffic in realtime and shows you a report on network traffic that looks > something like 'top'. > > At the other end is snort, a high efficiency packet analyzer with perl > routines for stat analysis. > > Both are in the ports collection. > > Good luck - > > Brennan W Stehling wrote: > > > > I am using an applet which is making network connections and I would like > > to know exactly what it is doing. I want to know where the information is > > coming from and how the communication is being done and know that I can > > simply look at the network traffic, but I do not know how. > > > > I am running it on a computer on the my home network which is fed by a dsl > > through my FreeBSD ipnat gateway. Can anyone tell me what tools I can use > > to get a detailed picture of my traffic? Can anyone point out a good > > tutorial on this? > > > > Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin > > projects: www.greasydaemon.com | www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com > > > > fortune: > > The Fifth Rule: > > You have taken yourself too seriously. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-ipfw" in the body of the message > > -- > Richard Martin dmartin@origen.com > > OriGen, inc. Tel: +1 512 474 7278 > 2525 Hartford Rd. Fax: +1 512 708 8522 > Austin, TX 78703 http://www.formed.net > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ipfw" in the body of the message
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