CentOS - Jul 2011 - Looking for ntop alternative

Hi,

Can anyone please recomment an ntop alternative for me, which is more
stable as well? I need to monitor all connections to and from a CentOS
5 server and ntop does it fairly well, but seems to crash at random
times, and thus looses all the date prior to the crash.


Cacti / MRTG only gives complete bandwidth usage on the given
interface, but I need to know how much bandwidth goes where, and comes
from where on which protocol etc.




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Rudi Ahlers
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-----Original Message-----
> Can anyone please recomment an ntop alternative for me, which is more
stable as well? I need to monitor all
> connections to and from a CentOS 5 server and ntop does it fairly well, but
seems to crash at random times, and
> thus looses all the date prior to the crash.
I have been using iptraf with great success for years, and thankfully it's
in the base respository. It allows you to write to a log or just collect stats
in memory.


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On Fri, 29 Jul 2011, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>
> From: Rudi Ahlers <Rudi at SoftDux.com>
> Subject: [CentOS] Looking for ntop alternative
> 
> Hi,
>
> Can anyone please recomment an ntop alternative for me, which is more
> stable as well? I need to monitor all connections to and from a CentOS
> 5 server and ntop does it fairly well, but seems to crash at random
> times, and thus looses all the date prior to the crash.
>
>
> Cacti / MRTG only gives complete bandwidth usage on the given
> interface, but I need to know how much bandwidth goes where, and comes
> from where on which protocol etc.
Would wireshark be suitable for this?

http://www.wireshark.org/

Kind Regards,

Keith Roberts

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