[10204] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network IP analysis?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin J. Hannigan)
Wed Jun 25 01:22:40 1997
From: "Martin J. Hannigan" <hannigan@firefly.net>
To: gdead@alaska.net (Bruce Potter)
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 01:17:12 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.970624205812.gdead@alaska.net> from "Bruce Potter" at Jun 24, 97 08:49:05 pm
> 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
The "etherman" tool suite out of Curtin University in Austalia is a free
start.
> would be nice, although I am unaware of any routers that support such a feature.
I just recently snagged MRTG, a freeware SMNP package that will poll a router
allowing snmp access. It seems like a simple traffic monitoring/averaging/history
program that is too simple to use, but provides easy to understand information
in a visual context. Cisco's are really easy to configure for snmp polling
by MRTG.
I'm sorry I can't post the ftp sites. Can't think of them off the top
of my head and too late to search. Apologies. Maybe someone else knows
firsthand?
Regards,
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