Internet Link Detective Audit

[Bob Martin]

There is also the old and venerable ntop, in the ports.

Bob Martin

Antony Mawer wrote:
> On 24/10/2006 10:08 AM, Edward Elhauge wrote:
> 
>> I'm hoping someone on this list can steer me in the right direction
>> towards figuring out what is going on with my internet link. (Or rather
>> the tools to figure it out on my own).
>>
> ...
> 
>>
>> What I'd like is a tool running on FreeBSD that will sort IP traffic
>> coming across my Internet interface by:
>>   SRC  IP, PROTOCOL and PORT
>>   DEST IP, PROTOCOL and PORT
>> then give me total KBs passed in that interval.
> 
> 
> I was recently in a similar situation and went looking for a similar 
> tool, and came across "darkstat" in the ports collection:
> 
>     http://www.freshports.org/net-mgmt/darkstat
> 
> While I did find it a bit rough around the edges in terms of some of its 
> data display, it gave me a way to monitor and visualise my traffic flows 
> and identify the large offenders...
> 
> In my case it turned out an OS X machine was set to automatically 
> download system updates, but because no one had applied them yet, it was 
> re-downloading them every day... :-)
> 
> Hope it helps!
> 
> -- Antony
> 
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