Ken Hawkins wrote:
> 
> Thanks, but I already have a basic monitor like that....I was looking
> more along the line of traffic analysis; others I've talked to are also
> seeing a lot of traffic, basically network "noise" but we would like to
> track it down to see which NIC/IP address the traffic is from/to.
> Perhaps a gnutella server; we had to shut a couple of these down before.
> 
> K

KEN,

It sounds like you are looking for some kind of network "sniffer", and
if that is the case, I would suggest something along the lines of
Ethereal or DSNIFF. A network sniffer will capture and analyze network
packets, showing headers and payload. If your interest is in finding out
if a SYN, ACK, FIN, etc, flag is set in the packet header, or you want
to see from what machine (PORT, IP ADDRESS, MAC) the packet came from,
and to see the destination machine (PORT, IP ADDRESS, MAC) of the
packet, network sniffers are what you use. You can, as well, glean a lot
of other network info from running a sniffer too.

Happy sniffing,
drjung 

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