RE: network statistic tool

["Noonan, Wesley" <Wesley_Noonan () bmc com>]

Also RMON and Netflow can give you a pretty good snapshot as well.

Wes Noonan, MCSE/CCNA/CCDA/NNCSS/Security+
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: winter [mailto:shonky_sec () hotpop com]
> Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 15:43
> To: PEN-TEST () securityfocus com
> Cc: 'Soeren Ziehe'
> Subject: RE: network statistic tool
>
> Hi,
>
> Sniffer Pro (nai) has some good protocol distrubition reports. May be a
> bit
> heavy for what you want through.
>
> winter
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Soeren Ziehe [mailto:robinton () alahele de]
> Sent: Tuesday, 3 June 2003 4:17 AM
> To: PEN-TEST () SECURITYFOCUS COM
> Subject: network statistic tool
>
>
> Hello,
>
> this is not strictly for pentesting. However the people on this ML
> should know an answer, I'd guess.
>
> We're experiencing severe network disruptions of varying duration and at
> varying times. Mechanical or electric failures in the network have been
> ruled out as far as possible.
>
> We would like to have a "look" at the traffic on the network. However we
> do
> /not/ want to look at each and every packet. We're
> interested in the distribution of protocols and distribution of traffic.
>
> Therefore the usual tools like Ethereal, tcpdump, Etherpeek et al. are
> not meeting our needs.
>
> Does anyone know a tool which samples the traffic and presents summary
> statistics on network traffic?
>
> Seeing a high percentage of "file sharing" would not really surprise us.
> But
> how to get an overview without being lost in the surge of packets
> such traffic causes?
>
> I know of Etherload, which is a DOS tool, that provided said services. A
> modern successor should be the tool we're hunting for.
>
> Robinton
>
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