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From: James <wireless@×××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Network traffic analysis
Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 20:12:26
Message-Id: loom.20160516T220806-135@post.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Network traffic analysis by Mick
1 Mick <michaelkintzios <at> gmail.com> writes:
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4 > > Is there anything around to do this and not need a web server installed on
5 > > the local machine?
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7 > Have a look at iftop, iptraf-ng and if you want more graphics ntop is worth
8 > considering.
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10 > Beyond those tools you could look at snmp, rrdtool and if you want a full
11 > blown monitoring tool with alerts and what not you could look at nagios,
12 > cacti, munin, etc., but all these would require a webserver running.
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15 Here is an additional resource listing, including wireshark. These tools
16 usually categorize traffic by port/protocol and not the specific
17 process(es) but I'm sure if you dig deeply enough you'll find what
18 you are looking for to characterize the traffic.
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20 hth,
21 James
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24 [1] https://wiki.wireshark.org/Tools

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Network traffic analysis Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>