Re: Port monitoring activity

"Anoop Chandran" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.release.psyche
Message-ID <[email protected]>
hi,

there's something called etherApe which is a protocol analyser .. i don't 
know whether it will
give a statistics based on ports..
iptables log in linux is a good thing but will  churn out huge amount of 
data

regards,
anoop.


>From: "Jason Dale" <[email protected]>
>Reply-To: [email protected]
>To: <[email protected]>
>Subject: Port monitoring activity
>Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 16:48:30 +0200
>
>Hi all,
>
>I am looking for a standard run-of-the-mill Linux command
>that functions similarily to '/usr/sbin/mtr' ( A network diagnostic
>tool ) except can monitor how many network packets get sent
>to or from a specific port. For example, I would want to know
>how much traffic get's sent to and from port 25 on eth0, and how
>many bytes get transferred with each packet. (A nifty way of finding
>out who is sending chompy emails).
>
>The command can display a screen, much like mtc, which get's
>updated realtime and/or at set intervals, showing interface/port
>activity levels.
>
>I don't know if any of you guys have been hit by the
>W32.Blaster.Worm yet, but the kind of tool I am talking about will
>be very useful in finding out what ports have 'unusual' amounts
>of activity.
>
>Jason.
>
>
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