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

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Adam Fisher wrote:

> I am a beginner when it comes to Ethereal and network analysis, so
> bear with me.  Basically, I am interesting in bandwidth monitoring for
> our network.  I have tried a couple programs, but my problem is that
> some of the IP addresses we would like to monitor don't have SNMP.  I
> posted on a networking list about possible solutions that wouldn't
> require SNMP, and Ethereal was suggested by a couple people. 
>  
> I downloaded the program and have looked at a lot of the information
> that is available online, but I am still not quite sure how to do any
> kind of bandwidth monitoring.  Is this a possibility with Ethereal? 
> If so, what is the best way to go about doing IP based bandwith
> monitoring on a network?
>  


Hi!

Ethereal isn't the best tool for network monitoring and also not
intended to, see:

http://wiki.ethereal.com/NetworkTroubleshooting_2fOverview

Regards, ULFL