Use a standard packet sniffer (dsniff, etherpeek, etc.) connected at various 
convergence points on your network and do one of two things depending on the 
functionality of the sniffer:

1) partial packet sniff and filter the results based on ports or save it to a text 
file and grep out the ports you want

2) if the sniffer supports it, look for your network top-talkers; file-sharing 
utilities use a lot of bandwidth just because of the queries each client sees (then 
sniff to see what ports data is being sent to/from)

Don't capture the full packets if you can help it...stick with just the headers. That 
reduces trace packet file sizes and doesn't touch so much on network traffic 
monitoring issues (legalities like monitoring communications, etc.).

Regards,

Bomm


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