Subject: Re: traffic matrix package?
To: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
From: David Brownlee <abs@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 10/26/2005 16:01:38
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> Is there any package that will construct a traffic matrix? Ntop is
> telling me that there is traffic to strange and wondrous places, but I
> don't know which hosts are talking to them, or over what ports. (Maybe
> ntop can do this, but if so I haven't figured out how to make it
> display it.)
>
> More precisely -- I have a small (Soekris) NetBSD box with three
> bridged interfaces, one of which leads to the outside world. I'd like
> to run some package that could monitor traffic on that third interface
> and produce a matrix showing which hosts are talking to which.
>
> Generating data in NetFlow format is probably ideal, since there are
> lots of tools to manipulate that. I see nprobe in pkgsrc, but its
> availability terms are, well, unusual. The package is also quite old;
> it's version 1.3.1 from 2002. 4.0 is the current version.
For realtime display I've find iftop or flodo of some use though
neither is ideal...
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