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From: kwasniak@sun1000.pwr.wroc.pl (Miroslaw Kwasniak)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Band Width Monitoring
Date: 12 Sep 1996 14:02:18 +0200
Organization: Technical Univeristy of Wroclaw
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Neil Fowler Wright <neil@corpex.com> wrote:
: Hi,

: We have a leased line that has overall Bandwidth monitoring by our
: service provider.  However we would like to monitor the IP traffic 
: on our network by IP number.

: Under Solaris there is a 'snoop' utility that allows you to watch the 
: ethernet port, and hence see all traffic, but a) I havn't encountered
: this under FreeBSD, b) It's a bit like cracking a nut with a wrecking
: ball ;-)

: Something that simply watches for 'a period' every 'larger period'
: and logs to a table the data/IP_No.

See: tcpdump and trafshow

Mirek