Re: Network sniffing and accounting program
On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 09:04:40AM +0800, Arne Goetje wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I'm looking for a network sniffing and accounting program.
> I am on a shared T1 link and like to have a diagram which shows like MRTG
> the network usage according to the time of the day.
> Because I don't have administration rights on the router the program has to
> sniff the traffic and guess the usage out of that data.
> I don't care of the protocol distribution or who is connecting to whom. I
> just want to know how much bandwith is consumed during which time of the
> day.
> I know there are several sniffing programs, even in debian, but I didn't
> find any yet which displays graphs for the whole backbone usage, only for
> the local host (like 'darkstar').
>
> Does anyone know a program which might fit my needs?
> Any suggestion appreciated.
>
I don`t know if it will be enough to you but you can try nagios
www.nagios.org that was called netsaint before. There is also the ntop
that can display graphs and you can run it on the promiscuos mode
and probably get all the traffic on your cable.
Rafael Sasaki
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