Re: Solaris/UNIX Network Performance & Security

[John Doe <security.department () tele2 ch>]

Jason T. Hallahan am Montag, 21. November 2005 20.06:
> Hello and good day,
> I am looking for a freely available tool/package, doesn't have to be
> anything special, that will give me relatively real-time network
> statistics regarding the NIC on my Solaris 8 box. Mainly I am looking
> for packets transmitted, packets lost, bytes transmitted, collisions
> on the interface, and possibly who is causing it (find the
> bottleneck/troublemaker). So far I have been using a combination of
> Ethereal/Ettercap/Etherape to perform this task, but I was wondering
> if anybody could point me in a better direction.


There are some standard tools you could have a look at:

ifconfig
ifstat
netstat -s

Should give you at least some answers.

hth, joe


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