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Re: [d-security] Traffic monitoring



On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 08:03:17PM +0100, Nils wrote:
> How do you monitor what network traffic you have and how much? I want to
> be able to see the origin and destination, type and volume.

Try looking for "netflow". It's a traffic accounting protocol invented
by Cisco and supported by most Cisco routers and Linux via ntop or
nprobe. Mostly used by ISPs.
Accounts ip-proto,address,port,as-number,tcpflags,num_packets,num_bytes.
It is normally installed on the border routers of the ISP facing the 
customer and the upstream providers interfaces (i.e. backbone traffic
is not accounted) but you can alter this setup.

bye,

-christian-

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