Chad V on 17 Dec 2008 06:17:25 -0800


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Re: [PLUG] setting up a network tap


> For question #2, I would use NTOP http://www.ntop.org/
>
>> My questions to the group are thus:
>>
>> 1.  Are there any better ways to do it other than what I mentioned?
>> 2.  What software would you use?
>> 3.  I'm pretty sure the 300 MHz, 128 MB ram, 300 GB hard drive system
>> is good enough to capture 1 business day worth of traffic for a LAN
>> with 8 PC's and 8 VoIP phones with light usage patterns.  Do you
>> agree?
>>
>> Thanks for any help!
>>
>> Chad
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If you look at the original e-mail I sent out, I was already planning
on running wireshark & ntop on it.  I was curious if anybody would run
anything else that might provide some useful information about the
network, traffic, users, applications, etc.

Thanks for the suggestion though.

Chad
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