Ethereal can certainly do this - it just depends how long you want to
run this for. If my maths serves me correctly T1 at 1.5Mbps full-duplex
will carry about 300kB per second max. This equates to a bit over 1GB
per hour, 24GB per day.
If you configure Ethereal to capture say just the first 128 bytes of
each packet you might be able to get this down to 1/10th of the size -
so you could allow for say 3GB per day.
You would probably want to split the capture into 1 hour long files for
ease of management while you are capturing. (You can also then compress
your captures in batch mode).
Ethereal can produce conversation matrices if you want at IP and TCP/UDP
port level.
The alternative tool that specifically allows you to view conversational
data and can use ethereal captured data, or natively capture data is
Ntop - http://www.ntop.org
Regards, Martin
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-----Original Message-----
From: ethereal-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ethereal-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Armstrong
Sent: Friday, 21 April 2006 3:55 AM
To: ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Ethereal-users] Collecting data for detailed traffic analyses
I need a way to collect basic traffic packet data (source IP & port,
destination IP & port, byte count) at T1 speeds. Ultimately I want to
produce an in/out matrix showing where traffic originated and where it
went.
Any suggestions how this might be accomplished? Basically, I'd like to
record just packet header information for later analysis.
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