Reg.Traffic Analysis

[anilsiri]

I am looking for a free traffic analysis tool which can give me the details of the TOP 10 users in my network at any specified interval mostly in a graphical way. Is there any software available?

Anil

 

[rn4it]

Well there mtrg it freeware, it will probably do more then just the top 10. There is a unix and windows version.

 

[Comstocb]

First, is your network switched or shared? If its shared, no problem, you can use just about any of the free traffic analysis tools to get an idea of whos generating the most traffic on the network. If it is switched however, the only choice you have that I can think of is MRTG as mentioned above but this requires your network equipment to be SNMP capable and it will only give you the individual port statistics, not what individual users are doing (this may be enough however as long as you know what users are on what ports). MRTG doesn't intercept traffic or anything like that, it just queries the network equipment to gather port utilization statistics that most equipment maintains these days.

Brian