I don't think Ethereal would be a good choice for this.
Take a look at NTOP http://www.ntop.org/
Kevin Maguire wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am wondering if ethereal is the best (or one of the best) tools to
> help me with the following issues:
>
> I would like to understand better how my many client systems access
> various servers/services. For example my mail server runs several
> services - pop/imap/imap+ssl/sendmail/NFS - and I would like to
> understand the load on each. Of course each service has it's own
> measuring facility (mailstats/nfsstat/syslog/...) but a
> traffic/service and traffic/client picture over the course of a week
> would I think help me better plan my network and size my servers. Can
> ethereal be the tool to produce such an output.
>
> The majority of my servers are Solaris, the rest Linux. I guess I
> could code something with snoop/tcpdump and/or perl/awk scripts, but
> maybe there is a pre-rolled recipe out there somewhere!?
>
> Cheers,
> Kevin
>
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