[clug] Net traffic

[Ben Polkinghorne]

fred wrote:

> Hi, I have a network monitoring question that somebody may be able to  
> answer. I am running debian
>  and windows behind a smoothwall box with ADSL, with the various  
> connections hooked into a switch. I would like to monitor, from the 
> linux  box, the traffic going to the windows machine. I have googled 
> for an  answer and tried programs like iptraf, but cannot get the 
> programs to do  what I need as I am not confident with the CLI. 
> Smoothwall has a monitor,  but it shows 24 hour cycles, not real time.
> TIA
> Fred

try ethereal for real time monitoring. ntop is also good but not quite 
realtime.

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Benjamin Polkinghorne.