Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 10:12:31 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au> To: <bsd-freak@mbox.com.au>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: IP Traffic monitoring Message-ID: <006801c0b589$7e286f20$0200a8c0@apana.org.au> References: <99e41399a2b3.99a2b399e413@mbox.com.au>
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ntop (from http://ntop.org) does a very good job of traffic monitoring, however you'll definitely need to download the source from their homepage & compile. I know there is a port or a package, but last time I looked it was a very old version & functions were severely limited compared with the version available from ntop.org. Main problems with ntop are the virtually non-existent documentation & inability to easily log statistics for later use. It doesn't need X because its run on the server but output is viewed in a remote browser (sorta like webmin) ----- Original Message ----- From: <bsd-freak@mbox.com.au> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 9:55 AM Subject: IP Traffic monitoring > 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
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