> Does anyone know of a way to monitor traffic on a network from behind a
> firewall or router. Our link gets saturated at certain times and I am trying
> to determine what type of traffic it is and where it is originating from?
> There may be some obvious tools but I think I am missing it.
I absolutely love ethereal for this kind of situation. Especially
when you can right-click one of the packets, do a "follow tcp stream",
and see exactly what's going on. Good stuff.
http://www.ethereal.com/
Sniffing the glue that holds the Internet together
Comes with most distros, so apt-get or up2date or whatever. the
text-based client is "tethereal", GUI is usually just "ethereal"
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/jmm> apt-cache search ethereal
ethereal - Network traffic analyzer
ethereal-common - Network traffic analyser (common files)
ethereal-dev - Network traffic analyser (development tools)
tethereal - Network traffic analyzer (console)
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