[10201] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network IP analysis?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Shaw)
Wed Jun 25 01:13:35 1997
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 00:09:13 -0500 (CDT)
From: Joe Shaw <jshaw@insync.net>
To: Bruce Potter <gdead@alaska.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.970624205812.gdead@alaska.net>
A Network General sniffer will do this for you, and it's a really nice
(read expensive) piece of equipment to have. They go for around $26,000
(someone correct me if I'm wrong... I've never bought one myself). If
that's out of your price range, there's always sniffer software for your
platform/os. Also, there's a piece of software for sys V/solaris (forget
which one) that will show you the types of network connections between
machines on your network that runs in X/openwin. I didn't work with
the program directly, but it laid everything out in a nice chart, and
showed the whole range of traffic types (udp/tcp/etc.)... I'm sure
someone on the list knows the name of it...
Joe Shaw - jshaw@insync.net
NetAdmin - Insync Internet Services
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Bruce Potter wrote:
> Howdy,
> Does anyone know of any good IP monitoring tools that can log/monitor the
> TYPES of IP traffic going across your netowork (ie: one that logs tcp/udp and
> esp port numbers/types of traffic)? Something that could query a router
> would be nice, although I am unaware of any routers that support such a feature.
> Even something that you could put on a box on the same ethernet subnet would
> do the job. I'm curious as to the types of traffic our customers are pushing
> as I am attempting to better analyze our usage.
>
> Thanks.
>
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