[plug] Network Analysing

Craig Ringer craig at postnewspapers.com.au
Thu Jan 2 14:53:51 WST 2003


> I'm just wondering, is it possible to view how many packets each machine on
> a network is sending/receiving without traffic actually running through the
> machine you're running the analysing software on (e.g. ethereal)?

You can do it with limited network traffic using SNMP, so long as you 
only want packet counts not detailed traffic breakdowns. It will 
generate some traffic but not much.




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