Sorry - missed this first time around. The Win32 package has had a history of not performing as well as the *nix versions. It has also had a few problems with FreeBSD, and seems to perform best on a Linux distro. I've never used the Win32 package, though, and it may be just fine now.
However, I use FreeBSD exclusively for my open source OS, and it runs fine on that. Kurt On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 7:29 AM, Joe Heaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kurt, > > I went to the ntop site, and they're saying you can actually use Win32 > platform for this also. Is there a specific reason you suggest *nix, or > is that just habit? > > Joe Heaton > Employment Training Panel > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 5:55 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Looking for packet shaping/viewer appliance/sotware > > If all you're looking to do is see bandwidth usage by protocol, and > other monitoring tasks, such as who your top 3 talkers are, etc., I > can heartily recommend putting up a *nix box on a mirror/span port on > the switch to which your firewall is connected, and running ntop. > > ntop is really dang cool - http://www.ntop.org/overfview.html > > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 12:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> At one of my clients we have the need to try and determine how the > internet >> is being utilized. The 10mb is constantly swamped and I have a hard > time >> believing it's for work-related reasons. >> >> I'm looking at putting in some kind of software/device that analyzes > the >> internet traffic and can tell me how much is being used for basic web >> surfing, streaming video, webcam usage, p2p programs, internet radio, > or >> whatever else might be happening. >> >> I know packeteer has a product that does this, but we are NOT looking > to >> "shape" the bandwidth at this time, merely view it so we can make a >> determination of what to do from there. They used to have a "viewer" >> product in the past long ago called PacketPup but I'm not sure if they > do >> anymore... >> >> Any recommendations on how I can determine what the internet is being > used >> for as it relates to Applications? >> >> Thanks >> JR >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >> myhosting.com - Premium Microsoft(R) Windows(R) and Linux web and > application >> hosting - http://link.myhosting.com/myhosting >> >> >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
