On Thursday 19 Aug 2004 15:17, Jack Malone wrote:
Can somone tell what I need to have installed on suse linux machine so that I can maybe monitor an analize some of the traffic on my network. I'm wanting to see if I can determine what is causing so much traffic on the lan at times that it makes things crawl. I know there is some software on the dvd/cd to do this just not sure what it is. If know what it is I do not mind going an reading the man pages to see if i can get it going or a good how-to on the subject either. A good recommendation on a good firewall book / howto would be nice to have also.
thanks for any help you list member can give me.
jack malone Network Administrator EAST TEXAS LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND dba HORIZON INDUSTRIES 903-595-3444 http://www.horizonind.com If you want total no nonsense identifiction of of the source of high packet counts then you aint going to do much better than using a little util called Tvark it's quick simple is graphical gives you a display of links IP to IP so allows you to see the culprit of large numbers of packets .
I used it recently to identify the location on an network spreadout over several branches of a business that is all linked via ADSL it worked a treat soon found the darn windBlows machine that was causing total havoc on the network trying to act as a DNS and spread it's load around Ha stopped dead . Pete . -- Linux user No: 256242 Machine No: 139931 G6NJR Pete also MSA registered "Quinton 11" A Linux Only area Happy bug hunting M$ clan PGN