Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] General info about Ethereal

[Marco van den Bovenkamp <marco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Rosenlof wrote:

> I was referred to this program by someone who told me that it was one of 
> the better network diagnostic tools.  I'm new to this field and I was 
> wondering if Ethereal can tell me in KB/s or Kb/s how fast my network is 
> running?  If so, how would I do that ?  I got kind of confused reading 
> all of the FAQ's. 

Yes, Ethereal *can* do that, but it's not really what it's for. If 
general network stats & pretty graphs are what you're looking for, take 
a look at NTOP (http://www.ntop.org/ntop.html)

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		Regards,

			Marco.