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On Wed, 9 Oct 1996, Gil Romano wrote:
> Anybody know of a good solution to measure total bytes on an ethernet,
> destined to or originating from any number of predetermined IP addresses. I
> guess I'm thinking of a poor man's version of a packet sniffer that listens
> to ALL packets on the Ethernet and keeps stats of total bytes transmitted to
> or from whichever IP's I want to track (or all for total traffic).
>
> The application would be measuring the bandwith utilization to or from a
> router (livingston, of course :-) or to measure traffic volume coming from a
> co-located web server and/or total bandwidth utilization on the ethernet
> itself. Yes, I know the Livingstons have byte counters on the ports, but
> you can't reset them without rebooting and you can't get total across all ports.
>
> Anybody have a good solution for this problem that costs less than $30,000
> as does Network General's "Network Sniffer" (I think that's what it's called
> and that's what I was told it costs)...something running on a low end PC
> would be nice, but I don't know if a regular ethernet card can do this.
>
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