Re: Bandwidth monitor


Subject: Re: Bandwidth monitor
From: Christopher Swingley (cswingle@iarc.uaf.edu)
Date: Wed Sep 25 2002 - 13:10:46 AKDT


Jon,

* Jon Reynolds <jonr@destar.net> [2002-Sep-25 12:48 AKDT]:
> I am looking for an application or a piece of hardware that we can put
> on a network and see which machines are connected to where and how much
> bandwidth they are using. We would like to see what ports they are
> connected to and what application they are running i.e IM, realplayer,
> spinner etc,etc. Does anyone know of something like this or does linux
> have something built in that would do this?

You might look into the 'ntop' utility. How well it works may depend on
the type of network you're talking about (switched / unswitched), and
where the ntop box sits in relation to the other machines.

    http://www.ntop.org/ntop.html

Chris

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