On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 06:53:51AM +0000, Visser, Martin wrote:
> This won't work if it is a network with a dumb (cheap/unmanaged) switch. (An 
> old dumb hub/repeater would be fine but almost no one uses these nowdays).
> 
> You really either need to get access to the gateway (and even then it may not 
> support any decent stats or raw capture) or have a switch that supports port 
> mirroring (where it makes a copy of all the traffic on all ports to a 
> particular nominated port).

or get a linux box with 2 nic and bridge between the switch and then gateway
> 
> There is a "bad" (read crackers) tool called ettercap which can trick all 
> your hosts to send their traffic to another other host by spoofing ARP 
> responses, but in my opinion it will generally degrade your network and hence 
> interfere in your measurement, so you probably should ignore this.
> 
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aleksey 
> Tsalolikhin
> Sent: Tuesday, 8 January 2008 4:10 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] measuring traffic
> 
> Have you tried ntop?  It should show you what the top usage is on your 
> network.  That might be the answer you are looking for.
> 
> Best,
> -at
> 
> On Jan 7, 2008 8:49 PM, david <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have a local network for which I do not have access to the gateway
> > host.
> >
> > What tool would folk suggest to determine what and how much traffic is
> > going to what port on which host?
> >
> > I've got 8 hosts on the network which are a mixture of mac and linux,
> > mostly on public IP addresses, and the bandwidth is getting chewed up
> > by something but i can't tell what.
> >
> > thanks...
> >
> > David.
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