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[Discuss] Discuss Digest, Vol 9, Issue 3



Hello Derek,

Have you checked out Ntop?  Set it up on a port mirroring, a tap or a
hub enjoy the view.  

http://www.ntop.org/

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> Today's Topics:
> 
>    1. Re: Network Traffic Visualization (Derek Atkins)
> 
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:58:59 -0500
> From: Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU>
> To: Eric Chadbourne <eric.chadbourne at gmail.com>
> Cc: discuss at blu.org
> Subject: Re: [Discuss] Network Traffic Visualization
> Message-ID: <sjm1uqd8eoc.fsf at mocana.ihtfp.org>
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> Eric Chadbourne <eric.chadbourne at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > On 02/01/2012 03:40 PM, Daniel C. wrote:
> >> - Do you have any preference for how you see it?
> >
> > Oh oh oh! Pick me, pick me!  Make really bad stuff bold bright pink
> > and not red.  Red is good luck in some cultures.  Pink, heh, that's
> > kind of funny.
> >
> >> Thank you all in advance!  Hopefully I'll be able to produce something
> >> genuinely useful.
> >
> >
> > Dude post a download on the list.  I would love to check it out and
> > watch my noisy network in action.
> 
> I have mrtg set up to show me aggregate network usage at my choke-point
> (router).  Sometimes it would be nice if there were a way for me to
> pinpoint usage based on host and port or based on session threads.  For
> example, sometimes I'd love to know that some particular host out in the
> cloud is pounding on one of my poor servers and pulling 5mbps out of my
> network.
> 
> Is there a good tool to be able to see that and/or visualize that?
> 
> My router is running dd-wrt, but it has limited space.  My network is
> generally on a switched network so I cannot just run etherwatch or
> wireshark.
> 
> > Thanks,
> > Eric C
> 
> -derek
> -- 
>        Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
>        Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
>        URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
>        warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available
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