On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:45 AM, <richardmccl...@aspca.org> wrote: >> Look also at ntop and MRTG. > > Thanks, but our vendor specs Wireshark.
In addition to, not instead of. Neither are packet analyzers like Wireshark is. ntop does sniff the wire, but only so it can present real-time information of usage. Kind of like a Task Manager for your network. (The name actually comes from "network top"; "top" is a Unix tool similar in intent to Task Manager.) MRTG graphs performance statistics over time. Anything you can read via SNMP, such as packet and error counters. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
