Network stats......

EverythingPCowner

Ive been asked to setup a sniffer on the sniffer port of our switch...and create a report of traffic. I want to show the percentage of traffic that each protocol is taking up. I want to limit it to http,ftp,telnet. Im using ethereal now....but im not satisfied with the reports....perhaps i dont have enough experiance with it, but its displaying way more than i need. I need something more......basic and strait forward (pie chart perhaps) if anyone can recomend a good sniffer w/report creation or a good cap analyzer that would be great. Thanks

lordy

You could have a look at Nitpicker (www.nitpicker.de).

It's a nice tool that captures traffic and will create so called flow-files which hold information on all traffic seen by the box it is running on.

However, it does not include tools to do what you want/need to but if you have some coding skills it should not be too hard to achieve what you are looking for.

Regards,
Lordy

johnnynodough

I havent messed around with ethereal to much, but you should be able to use filters to get only the protocols that you want with most packet analyzers.

EverythingPCowner

Thanks, ill look into it. Ill let ya know what works out best.

EverythingPCowner

I am using a laptop running ethereal in promiscuous mode. i am using the switched port analyzer port on our 4507r catalyst switch. Im having trouble handling all the traffic on my laptop. Ive been given the OK to purchase a hardware sniffer....good deal. Thanks for your help