On 09/12/2002 08:57:30 AM Marcel Hicking wrote: >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > I need to implement traffic shaper in my net but must get info on what >> > traffic is eating up more bw. >> > >> > What traffic sniffers/reporters have you played with or can recomend or >> > comment on? (preferably with HTML/graphic output). >> >> $ apt-cache show ntop >> $ apt-cache show sntop
Good choices. I suggest iptraf, tcpdump, and iptstate are also good. As a general rule, I find the more "graphics" the slower and harder to use, and the less information presented. nmc:~$ apt-cache show iptraf Description: Interactive Colorful IP LAN Monitor IPTraf is an ncurses-based IP LAN monitor that generates various network statistics including TCP info, UDP counts ICMP and OSPF information, Ethernet load info, node stats IP checksum errors, and others. . Note that since 2.0.0 IPTraf requires a kernel >= 2.2 $ apt-cache show tcpdump Description: A powerful tool for network monitoring and data acquisition This program allows you to dump the traffic on a network. tcpdump is able to examine IPv4, ICMPv4, IPv6, ICMPv6, UDP, TCP, SNMP, AFS BGP, RIP, PIM, DVMRP, IGMP, SMB, OSPF, NFS and many other packet types. . It can be used to print out the headers of packets on a network interface, filter packets that match a certain expression. You can use this tool to track down network problems, to detect "ping attacks" or to monitor network activities. More information is at <URL: http://www.tcpdump.org/> $ apt-cache show iptstate Description: Top-like state for netfilter/iptables IP Tables State (iptstate) was originally written to implement the "state top" feature of IP Filter for netfilter/iptables. "State top" displays the states held by your stateful firewall in a top-like manner.
