Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 09:26:52 -0500 From: Wesley Eddy <weddy@masaka.cs.ohiou.edu> Subject: Re: tcptrace Host bandwidth consumption graph? Message-ID: <20030203092652.B24097@irg.cs.ohiou.edu>
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 10:08:37PM +1100, Beau Fabry wrote:
> I have a debian system here that is an ethernet bridge, it connects to a
> wireless link that is our only internet connection, we supply internet
> to a few businesses and things here. We're having problems lately of the
> wireless link getting bogged down, what I would like to be able to do is
> run tcpdump on the bridge, and somehow generate statistics to show what
> percentage of traffic each host is generating?
> I only just made the bridge the other day and I intend to use this sort
> of functionality to determine if say anyone is downloading lots of big
> files (which they shouldn't be doing) or are being used as fileservers,
> and also to eventually add some filters to the bridge so that I can get
> rid of some of the crap that goes over the link that we don't need.
> So is there any way to generate statistics like this with tcptrace and
> tcpdump?
> any help would be appreciated.
>
tcptrace could be rigged to do that, but it'd probably be much easier
to just run ntop, which out of the box contains the features you want
and makes nice looking pie charts of bandwidth broken down by host among
other things. I'd recommend that instead.
-Wes
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