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>&#13; I'm not an expert in this field, so I just mention the tools I know.
Please check also for other applications. Besides the usual tools
<B
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>tcpdump</B
>, <B
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>netcat</B
>, there are two
applications I prefer, which may be used to analyze network traffic:
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>&#13; The <A
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>Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG)</A
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is a tool to monitor the traffic load on network-links. MRTG generates HTML pages
containing GIF images which provide a LIVE visual representation of this
traffic. MRTG is based on Perl and C and works under
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>&#13; <A
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is a <SPAN
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similar to what the popular top <SPAN
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>ntop</B
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netscape) can attach to <B
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server) and get a dump of the network status. In the latter case,
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