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Date:      Wed, 29 Nov 2000 18:39:30 -0700 (MST)
From:      Diana Eichert <deichert@wrench.com>
To:        Rowan Crowe <rowan@sensation.net.au>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: tcpdump & user-ppp/tunX. Ethereal ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.10.10011291828020.12719-100000@inago.swcp.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011301206020.55961-100000@velvet.sensation.net.au>

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Since FreeBSD also support IP Filter you could look at:

"IP Accounting Package for Darren Reed's IP Filter"
from http://www2.empnet.com/ipacct/

BTW, you can now build a command line version of Ethereal called tethereal
without having to build all of Ethereal.

diana

On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Rowan Crowe wrote:

> 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.
> 



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