Network monitoring with FreeBSD

[Kurt Buff]

Will take a look - thanks.

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 3:59 AM, Vitaliy Tokarenko <rphone at ukr.net> wrote:
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>   Try pmacct. This is lightweight and feature-rich tool for accounting and network statistics.
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>  http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/net-mgmt/pmacct/
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>   --- Original message ---
>  From: "Kurt Buff" <kurt.buff at gmail.com>
>  To: freebsd-net at freebsd.org
>  Date: 27 November 2012, 01:16:45
>  Subject: Network monitoring with FreeBSD
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>> If this belongs on a different list, please let me know...
>>
>> I've long used ntop, but the current version in ports is missing a
>> feature that I found incredibly useful, and I'm seeking an
>> alternative.
>>
>> I'm running several small FreeBSD 9 boxen monitoring my HP switches on
>> their mirror ports, and ntop 3.x could give the the top 3 talkers when
>> I clicked on a graph of the network load statistics, but under 4.x
>> that no longer seems to be the case, and 5.x isn't in the ports tree
>> yet.
>>
>> I'd love to dive deeper into who is talking, and what traffic is
>> passing on my network, and I'm pretty dedicated to using FreeBSD, as
>> I've not liked any Linux I've ever touched.
>>
>> I've perused ports/net and ports/net-mgmt, and there are a bewildering
>> number of options. If anyone has recommendations, I'd like to hear it.
>>
>> Kurt
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