On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 02:14:23PM -0400, Robert Watson wrote: > > On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Josef Karthauser wrote: > > > I'm looking for some software to basically analyse the traffic I've got > > going over a particular pipe so that I can work out whether or what to > > traffic shape. Can anyone recommend anything? > > I tend to cut my own BPF-based tools as needed to measure particular types > of traffic, but that's not a very scalable approach. There are commercial > products, such as NAI's Sniffer tool (I think it can read playback from > pcap output), which claim to be able to help with that sort of analysis, > but I've never really used them. For a "first cut" visualization of > currently active network connections, tools such as ntop, trafshow, > tcpstat, etc, can actually provide surprising amounts of insight. >
Ahha, ntop. That looks like just the kind of thing I was looking for. Thanks :). Joe -- Josef Karthauser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.josef-k.net/ FreeBSD (cvs meister, admin and hacker) http://www.uk.FreeBSD.org/ Physics Particle Theory (student) http://www.pact.cpes.sussex.ac.uk/ ================ An eclectic mix of fact and theory. =================
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