Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Bandwidth Usage Monitoring

["Jack Coates" <jack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I am doing some work for a would-be ISP/web host, and they have asked me
> to setup a way of monitoring how much bandwidth each of their customers
> (who each have their own domain) use on each of the services they
> provide, ie web hosting, email and FTP.
>
> Said company had spoken to their ISP who suggested they use ethereal. I
> downloaded and installed ethereal without any trouble, and set it up to
> monitor traffic.  This was very straight forward, and it is easy to see
> that ethereal is very powerful and practical utility.  However, I cannot
> see any easy way of bringing back the required information.  Can you
> give any advice on the best way to go about getting this right?
>
> Many thanks
>
> Lewis

Sounds like that ISP didn't understand the question, or else I'm not. You
want MRTG (http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/) or NTOP
(http://www.ntop.org), not Ethereal.

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