[SunHELP] Re: Network/packet/bandwidth analyzers

[Mike]

I forgot to add, you can check out "sniffit", which is for educational use
only. It's ported under FreeBSD, and it will give you live analysis of
packet data. Yes, you can even see insecure communication between two
hosts (telnet, ftp, etc.). You can also set filters to watch certain
hosts.

Thanks.


On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Fogg, James wrote:

> Ethereal for Linux (and maybe others) is great. In fact, you can use snoop
> (solaris) or tcpdump (linux) in binary logging output mode and open the logs
> in Ethereal. This trick allows remote capture.
> 
> btw... You should know that you cannot have an ethernet switch in the
> circuit or you won't see any unicast packets (you will see broadcast
> packets). Use a hub to see everything. Alternatively, some switches
> (specifically Cisco Cats and maybe others) have a port monitor mode where
> everything from a single port or a group of ports can be copied to a port
> for this sort of monitoring.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ahmed afrose [mailto:ahmed.afrose at siemens.co.ae]
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 6:58 AM
> > To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> > Subject: [SunHELP] Re: Network/packet/bandwidth analyzers
> > 
> > 
> > hello,
> > 
> > Scenario:
> > I need to watch the network interfaces between two sun machine and
> > capture packets or statistics of packets received Or even a bandwidth
> > analyzer would do.
> > 
> > Question:
> > Anybody know of any free software that could do something like the
> > above?
> > 
> > Much appreciate if you could point me to it.
> > 
> > Thanks in advance
> > 
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