Bandwidth Monitoring Software

[VanDykI]

Hi,

Does anyone here use any WAN bandwidth monitoring software that can tell a person the tpes of traffic - eg smtp, www, pop3, etc; and the portion of badwidth that certail IP's are using for the WAN links that Cisco routers are connected to?

Regards
Ian Van Dyk

 

[JabbaTheFart]

You can try these:

http://cebu.mozcom.com/riker/iptraf/

http://www.ntop.org/

this is one i am working on getting up and running.

http://net.doit.wisc.edu/~plonka/FlowScan/

 

[Stelios]

Hi,
there is another software out there but haven't try it yet.
It has a free edition and a Pro (~$40)

PRTG (Paessler Router Traffic Grapher)

http://www.paessler.com/index_eng.html

Maybe somebody who has try it has more comments on that.


Stelios

 

[westmanm]

PRTG looks like MRTG but with a fee. I'd just go with MRTG, except it doesn't care about the trafic type only the ammount.

-Mike

 

[wybnormal]

A decent sniffer like Packetyzer (free) or commercial brands such as EtherPeek or NAI Sniffer. LANHound will also do this. If you have a Linux box, NTOP is great for this sort of thing..

Various sniffers -

http://www.packetattack.com/network_analysis_sniffers.html

NTOP -

http://www.ntop.org/ntop.html

MikeS


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